Aminah
Aminah was given to 200 girls in 2025, #1,160 among girls’ names; 5,536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,470 Americans named Aminah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aminah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aminah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aminah is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Spelling variant of Amina.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aminah?
#1,160 among girls’ names, 2025
Aminah fell from #906 in 2015 to #1,160 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.12 per 1,000.
306 babies in 2017, the peak
Aminah peaked in 2017, when 306 girls were given it, #887 among girls’ names. The 200 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 200 | #1,160 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 255 | #1,004 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 226 | #1,089 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,089 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 211 | #1,160 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 229 | #1,078 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 237 | #1,065 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 243 | #1,053 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 306 | #887 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 259 | #1,023 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 303 | #906 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 242 | #1,063 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,616 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,631 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,639 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,703 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,822 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,743 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,147 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,129 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,254 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,713 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,895 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,110 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,763 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,982 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,974 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,990 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,800 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,668 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,730 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,351 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,597 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,216 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,630 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,432 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,474 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,859 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,203 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,251 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,916 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,980 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,652 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,218 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,445 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,682 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,423 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,231 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,549 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,653 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,385 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,430 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,299 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aminah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aminah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aminah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aminah, and how old are they?
5,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,536 Americans ever recorded as Aminah. The median Aminah alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,585 people named Aminah (3,581 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 235 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 591 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,050 |
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 Aminah born?
The states with the most babies named Aminah are California, New York and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 31 | #910 | 0.8× |
| New York | 21 | #761 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,272 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 15 | #624 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #781 | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 9 | #989 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,441 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 9 | #791 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 9 | #595 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 8 | #851 | 0.9× |
Where Aminah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aminah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1965 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 Aminah 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 30,005 babies since 1880, Aminah is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 200 of their 1,327 babies (15%), again the second 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 Aminah
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 Aminah and names like it
- Compare Aminah and AminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAminah peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aminah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Aminah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Aminah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aminah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.