How rare is the name Aminah?

3,585 people in the United States have the first name Aminah, about 1 in 84,249. It ranks #4,955 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

AMINAH

#4,955

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,585
About
1 in 84,249
This common or more
84.7%
Who bears it

Of the 3,585 people named Aminah, 56.4% reported their origin as Black, 12.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 11.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Aminah peaked in 2017, when 306 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19652025
Peak year
2017
Births that year
306
In 2025*
200 ▼35%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,536 babies have been given the name since 1965. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Aminah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #2,062. The largest share of babies named Aminah, 55.5%, were born in 2013 or later.

1960s#11,61024
1970s#5,357200
1980s#5,046282
1990s#3,833588
2000s#3,371983
2010s#2,1262,109
2020s#2,0621,350
Generation X 1965–804.5%
Millennials 1981–9611%
Generation Z 1997–1229%
2013 and later55.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Aminah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aminah has been most common in New Jersey (3.2×), Maryland (2.4×), and Georgia (2×), and least common in Missouri (0.35×).

3,792 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Aminah

1 other first name also has 3,585 people.

#4,955 Emad · 3,585

Either side of Aminah

#4,953 Demetri · 3,586#4,953 Denton · 3,586#4,955 Emad · 3,585#4,957 Aleigha · 3,584

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Aminah, most common first.

#1,711 Amina · 18,079#27,293 Amenah · 336#45,674 Amineh · 148

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