Aminah — #1007 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Aminah

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,335 babies named Aminah between 1965 and 2024, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aminah currently holds the #1007 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 306 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aminah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Aminah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 565 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Aminah in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aminah 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 5,335 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.