Amina Girl
How popular is Amina?
#315 girl name in 2025
970 baby girls were named Amina in the US in 2025, making it the 315th most popular girl name.
Amina popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #315 for girls (▼ 9 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 970 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-9% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #304 in 2015, #330 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (1,180 girls) |
| Highest rank | #271 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1943 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Amina counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Amina family of names ranked #274 for girls in 2025 (#251 the year before), with 1,213 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amina | 970 | 80% |
| Aminah | 200 | 16% |
| Aaminah | 15 | 1% |
| Aamina | 22 | 2% |
| Amyna | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Amina is most popular
Babies named Amina per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 2.0 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Delaware: 1.6 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- New York: 1.5 per 1,000 (580 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.1 per 1,000 (66 girls)
- Illinois: 1.1 per 1,000 (248 girls)
Amina by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,690 |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,889 |
| 1960s | 64 | #2,704 |
| 1970s | 536 | #1,558 |
| 1980s | 755 | #1,420 |
| 1990s | 1,331 | #1,085 |
| 2000s | 2,891 | #728 |
| 2010s | 7,868 | #271 |
| 2020s | 5,808 | #306 |
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Questions
- Is Amina a boy or girl name?
- Amina is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Amina were girls.
- How popular is the name Amina?
- 970 baby girls were named Amina in the US in 2025, making it the 315th most popular girl name.
- When was Amina most popular?
- Amina peaked in 2017, when 1,180 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #271 in 2017.
- How many people are named Amina?
- 19,270 babies have been named Amina in the US since 1880. We estimate about 19,108 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Amina most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Amina was most common in District of Columbia, at 2.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.