Aminah Girl
How popular is Aminah?
#1,160 girl name in 2025
200 baby girls were named Aminah in the US in 2025, making it the 1160th most popular girl name.
Aminah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,160 for girls (▼ 156 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 200 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-34% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #906 in 2015, #1,078 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (306 girls) |
| Highest rank | #887 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1965 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aminah 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 Aminah is most popular
Babies named Aminah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 0.4 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Illinois: 0.3 per 1,000 (70 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.3 per 1,000 (51 girls)
- Virginia: 0.3 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (60 girls)
Aminah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #4,417 |
| 1970s | 200 | #2,423 |
| 1980s | 282 | #2,723 |
| 1990s | 588 | #1,667 |
| 2000s | 983 | #1,713 |
| 2010s | 2,109 | #887 |
| 2020s | 1,350 | #1,004 |
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Questions
- Is Aminah a boy or girl name?
- Aminah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Aminah were girls.
- How popular is the name Aminah?
- 200 baby girls were named Aminah in the US in 2025, making it the 1160th most popular girl name.
- When was Aminah most popular?
- Aminah peaked in 2017, when 306 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #887 in 2017.
- How many people are named Aminah?
- 5,536 babies have been named Aminah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 5,483 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Aminah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aminah was most common in Maryland, at 0.4 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.