Aaminah
Aaminah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,132 among girls’ names; 532 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaminah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaminah?
#7,132 among girls’ names, 2025
Aaminah fell from #3,649 in 2015 to #7,132 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 9.3 per million.
42 babies in 2015, the peak
Aaminah peaked in 2015, when 42 girls were given it, #3,649 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,132 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,244 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,247 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,412 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,147 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,649 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,453 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,376 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,106 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,414 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,124 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,421 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,053 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,868 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,341 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,577 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,550 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,564 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,436 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,140 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaminah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaminah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aaminah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaminah, and how old are they?
An estimated 528 Americans named Aaminah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Aaminah (336 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 430 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Aaminah?
Aaminah is a less common spelling of Amina: SSA has recorded 532 Aaminah and 19,270 Amina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,473 babies since 1880, Aaminah is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 1,243 babies (1.2%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaminah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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