Amina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Arabic, meaning “faithful, trustworthy”, masculine equivalent Amin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æmɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 24th most common given name.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 183(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 380
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 522
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #949 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Амина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) (ameenah) (¢2|): trustworthy, honest; fem. of Amin eel. See Amin (m.). Comp. Aamina 4./
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Amina is read(measured from records)
Amina is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amina in Hindi.
- English16%
A female given name from Arabic, meaning “faithful, trustworthy”, masculine equivalent Amin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amina in Swahili.
- Arabic11%
) (ameenah) (¢2|): trustworthy, honest; fem. of Amin eel. See Amin (m.). Comp. Aamina 4./
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
safe, secure, protected; trustworthy, faithful, honest; mother of the Prophet Muhammad
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
‘trustworthy, faithful’; a classic Arabic Muslim name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amina in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #119 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Amina | 89 |
| TZ Tanzania | #35 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | — | Amina | 34 |
| MA Morocco | #56 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 380 | — | Amina | 113 |
| DZ Algeria | #24 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 522 | listed | Amina | 69 |
| RU Russia | #178 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | #74 | Амина | 162 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #66 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | 57K | Амина | 48 |
| US United States | — | 18,079 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Amina | 344 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Somali, Somali/Muslim: 'trustful, honest'; also associated with Muhammad's mother. Popular with the Hausa of West Africa.
as a nameAfrican Names
‘Peaceful’, ‘secure’; name of the Prophet's mother.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Queen Aminab. 1533NGHausa Muslim Warrior Queen of Zazzau
- Amina Ilhamib. 1858TREgyptian princess (1858-1931)
- Amina Wadudb. 1952USAmerican Islamic scholar
- Lalla Amina of Moroccob. 1954MAMoroccan royal (1954-2012)
- Amina J. Mohammedb. 1961NGNigerian-British diplomat and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Amina Mohamedb. 1961KEKenyan diplomat and politician
- Amina Annabib. 1962TNFrench-Tunisian singer and actress
- Amina Okuevab. 1983UAUkrainian surgeon and servicewoman, People's hero of Ukraine
- Amina Inoueb. 1988JPJapanese actress
- Amina Tylerb. 1994TNTunisian feminist and activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 125 sources across 67 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,711 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 970 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52 | #1,711 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Amina come from?
- ) (ameenah) (¢2|): trustworthy, honest; fem. of Amin eel. See Amin (m.). Comp. Aamina 4./ Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Amina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 346 thousand people named Amina in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amina.
- What does the name Amina mean?
- In English, A female given name from Arabic, meaning “faithful, trustworthy”, masculine equivalent Amin.
- Is Amina a male or female name?
- Amina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Amina?
- A machine transcription gives /æmɪnə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Amina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,079 people named Amina in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Amina compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Amina is the 119th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Amina?
- In the etymology graph, Emine, Amine and Aminah are forms of the same name in other languages.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aminaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amina” — the 119th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.