Aminta — girls' name
280 babies named Aminta in U.S. Social Security records since 1918, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Aminta was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Aminta in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aminta
The Social Security Administration has registered 280 babies named Aminta between 1918 and 2008, spanning 91 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aminta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aminta performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Aminta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aminta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aminta 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 280 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.
Aminta at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aminta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1918
- Peak year (1989)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 91 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
280 total births across 91 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 11 births in a single year.
Aminta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 67 births that decade — 24% of Aminta's all-time total
Aminta decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 60 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Aminta's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Aminta by state
Where Aminta concentrates geographically — total births since 1918
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 20 | 7.1% |
20 of 280 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 7.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 7.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1918–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.