Amina
Amina was given to 970 girls in 2025, #315 among girls’ names; 19,270 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,100 Americans named Amina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amina is “a female given name from Arabic, meaning “faithful, trustworthy”, masculine equivalent Amin.”
Also “a female given name from Arabic, notably borne by”
Borrowed from Arabic أَمِينَة (ʔamīna).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amina?
#315 among girls’ names, 2025
Amina fell from #304 in 2015 to #315 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 0.60 per 1,000.
1,180 babies in 2017, the peak
Amina peaked in 2017, when 1,180 girls were given it, #271 among girls’ names. The 970 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 970 | #315 | 0.60 |
| 2024 | 1,003 | #306 | 0.62 |
| 2023 | 972 | #322 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 1,010 | #318 | 0.62 |
| 2021 | 914 | #345 | 0.56 |
| 2020 | 939 | #330 | 0.58 |
| 2019 | 989 | #323 | 0.59 |
| 2018 | 1,118 | #298 | 0.66 |
| 2017 | 1,180 | #271 | 0.68 |
| 2016 | 1,106 | #294 | 0.62 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,066 | #304 | 0.60 |
| 2014 | 785 | #409 | 0.44 |
| 2013 | 448 | #624 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 408 | #690 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 365 | #755 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 403 | #709 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 399 | #728 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 386 | #763 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 358 | #802 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 265 | #981 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 286 | #883 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 269 | #900 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 277 | #866 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 237 | #944 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,065 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 215 | #984 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 183 | #1,086 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 178 | #1,087 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 173 | #1,085 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,185 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 141 | #1,212 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 128 | #1,320 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,450 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,672 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,650 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,699 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,635 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,453 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 76 | #1,618 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,421 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,575 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,736 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,529 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,645 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,606 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,833 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,638 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,605 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,688 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,714 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,725 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,969 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,211 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,708 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,785 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,660 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,714 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amina, and how old are they?
19,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 19,270 Americans ever recorded as Amina. The median Amina alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 18,079 people named Amina (18,027 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,558 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 630 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Amina born?
The states with the most babies named Amina are New York, California and Texas, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 144 | #102 | 2.1× |
| California | 96 | #340 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 57 | #552 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 57 | #321 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #224 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 46 | #216 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 46 | #241 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 40 | #224 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 37 | #269 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #332 | 0.8× |
Where Amina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amina is most over-represented in New York: since 1943 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 48,120 babies since 1880, Amina is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 970 of their 1,937 babies (50%), again the most given.
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 Amina
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.
More about Amina and names like it
- Compare Amina and AmaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmina peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amina since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Amina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Amina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.