Amina — #307 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Amina

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,292 babies named Amina between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amina currently holds the #307 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 1,179 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,866 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Amina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,361 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Amina in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 18,292 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.