Amina

Where Amina comes from

Borrowed from Arabic أَمِينَة (ʔamīna).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amina
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,691 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Amina Wadud born
    American Islamic scholar
  3. 1961
    Amina J. Mohammed born
    Nigerian-British diplomat and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
  4. 2017
    Peak, #271
    1,180 babies named Amina — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, meaning “faithful, trustworthy”, masculine equivalent Amin.
  • A female given name from Arabic, notably borne by
  • A female given name from Arabic, notably borne by:
  • the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
Namesakes
  • Amina J. Mohammed · Nigerian-British diplomat and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, born 1961
  • Amina Wadud · American Islamic scholar, born 1952
  • Amina Bouayach · Moroccan activist, born 1957
  • Amina Okueva · Ukrainian surgeon and servicewoman, People's hero of Ukraine, 1983–2017
  • Amina Lawal · Nigerian sentenced to death, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.