Aminata
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Good character
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aminata/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aminata is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 151(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.5K
- USUnited States1 in 96K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 151 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Good character
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aminata 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #17 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 151 | 107 | Aminata | 54 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #857 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 536 | — | Aminata | 22 |
| ML Mali | #11 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 35 | Aminata | 32 |
| FR France | #768 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 9.2K | Aminata | 251 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Aminata | 11 |
| US United States | — | 3,480 | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Aminata | 180 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Aminata is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Wolof, Wolof (Senegal): a popular female name.
as a nameAfrican 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)
- Aminata Fallb. 1930SNSenegalese actor (1930-2002)
- Aminata Maïga Kab. 1940SNSenegalese writer (1940-2005)
- Aminata Sow Fallb. 1941SNSenegalese writer
- Aminata Dramane Traoréb. 1947MLMalian politician
- Aminata Touréb. 1952GNGuinean politician (1952-2022)
- Aminata Touréb. 1962SNSenegalese prime minister
- Aminata Touréb. 1992DEGerman politician
- Aminata Savadogob. 1993LVLatvian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
- Aminata Haidarab. 1997CIIvorian footballer
- Keïta Aminata MaigaMLMalian healthcare and children's advocate
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 66 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 9.2K | #134 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #5,066 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 107 | #10 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 73 | — |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 35 | #4 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #5,066 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #444 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Aminata mean, and where does it come from?
- Good character Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Aminata?
- A machine transcription gives /aminata/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Aminata a male or female name?
- Aminata 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.
- What are other forms of the name Aminata?
- In the etymology graph, Emine, Amina and Aminah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Aminata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Aminata in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aminata.
- How common is the name Aminata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,480 people named Aminata in 2020, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
- How common is Aminata compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Aminata is the 17th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aminata?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aminataThe 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, “Aminata” — the 17th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.