Aamina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mother of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əæmɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aamina 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 183as Amina(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 380as Amina
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 386as Амина
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 Aamina 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 named Amina, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est., as Amina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Amina in US United States, NG Nigeria, MA Morocco and 2 more and 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)
mother of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aamina 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 | — | 18,079as Amina | 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)
Aamina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, mother of Muhammad (s). Comp. Amina asi), trustworthy
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Finnish, essive singular of aami
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, essive singular of aam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Aamina Sheikhb. 1981USPakistani actress
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 33 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 391 | #24,570 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 19 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Aamina mean, and where does it come from?
- mother of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Aamina?
- In the etymology graph, Amina, Aminah and Aminata are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Aamina?
- A machine transcription gives /əæmɪnə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Aamina a male or female name?
- Aamina 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.
- In which country does Aamina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 346 thousand people named Amina in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aamina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,079 people named Amina in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Aamina compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Aamina is the 119th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aamina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aaminaThe 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, “Aamina” — the 119th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.