Amina
#315 for girls in 2025, 970 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 1,180 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,270since 1943
Amina over time
Rank among girls' names. Amina has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #315 | 970 |
| 2024 | #306 | 1,003 |
| 2023 | #322 | 972 |
| 2022 | #318 | 1,010 |
| 2021 | #345 | 914 |
| 2020 | #330 | 939 |
| 2019 | #323 | 989 |
| 2018 | #297 | 1,118 |
| 2017 | #271 | 1,180 |
| 2016 | #294 | 1,106 |
| 2015 | #304 | 1,066 |
| 2014 | #409 | 785 |
| 2013 | #624 | 448 |
| 2012 | #690 | 408 |
| 2011 | #755 | 365 |
| 2010 | #709 | 403 |
| 2009 | #728 | 399 |
| 2008 | #762 | 386 |
| 2007 | #802 | 358 |
| 2006 | #981 | 265 |
| 2005 | #883 | 286 |
| 2004 | #900 | 269 |
| 2003 | #866 | 277 |
| 2002 | #944 | 237 |
| 2001 | #1,066 | 199 |
| 2000 | #985 | 215 |
| 1999 | #1,088 | 183 |
| 1998 | #1,088 | 178 |
| 1997 | #1,086 | 173 |
| 1996 | #1,186 | 152 |
| 1995 | #1,214 | 141 |
| 1994 | #1,323 | 128 |
| 1993 | #1,451 | 110 |
| 1992 | #1,673 | 90 |
| 1991 | #1,656 | 90 |
| 1990 | #1,701 | 86 |
| 1989 | #1,639 | 84 |
| 1988 | #1,454 | 94 |
| 1987 | #1,619 | 76 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 |
| 1985 | #1,575 | 76 |
| 1984 | #1,771 | 61 |
| 1983 | #1,733 | 62 |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1981 | #1,528 | 78 |
| 1980 | #1,644 | 70 |
| 1979 | #1,605 | 70 |
| 1978 | #1,558 | 70 |
| 1977 | #1,832 | 55 |
| 1976 | #1,638 | 60 |
| 1975 | #1,604 | 61 |
| 1974 | #1,688 | 54 |
| 1973 | #1,714 | 52 |
| 1972 | #1,724 | 51 |
| 1971 | #1,966 | 43 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 |
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| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amina! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amina is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#479 · 1 in 3,212
- New York#518 · 1 in 3,367
- Pennsylvania#716 · 1 in 5,826
- Illinois#731 · 1 in 5,378
- Virginia#740 · 1 in 5,543
Best ever in a state: #84 in District of Columbia, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #479 | 13 | 1 in 3,212 |
| New York | #518 | 30 | 1 in 3,367 |
| Pennsylvania | #716 | 10 | 1 in 5,826 |
| Illinois | #731 | 13 | 1 in 5,378 |
| Virginia | #740 | 6 | 1 in 5,543 |
| Michigan | #805 | 8 | 1 in 6,495 |
| California | #1,005 | 26 | 1 in 8,571 |
| Ohio | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 10,306 |
| Florida | #1,314 | 6 | 1 in 12,225 |
| Texas | #1,460 | 10 | 1 in 13,989 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amina
- 9 spots since 2024 (#306 → #315)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#330 → #315)
- 11 spots since 2015 (#304 → #315)
- Biggest jump: 215 spots in 2014 (#624 → #409)
- Biggest drop: 98 spots in 2006 (#883 → #981)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 2017 at #271 (1,180 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,463 girls born in 2017 were named Amina (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,657 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 40.8% of all girls named Amina (7,868) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 5 | #4,691 (1943) | #4,691 |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,890 (1958) | #5,227 |
| 1960s | 64 | #2,704 (1969) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 536 | #1,558 (1978) | #1,854 |
| 1980s | 755 | #1,420 (1986) | #1,612 |
| 1990s | 1,331 | #1,086 (1997) | #1,347 |
| 2000s | 2,891 | #728 (2009) | #892 |
| 2010s | 7,868 | #271 (2017) | #468 |
| 2020s | 5,808 | #306 (2024) | #323 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amina in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 10,062 of them was named Amina, which outranked 93.3% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,079Leeann174
- #1,079Marlee174
- #1,079Sommer174
- #1,086Amina173
- #1,086Belinda173
- #1,086Coral173
- #1,086Nyasia173
- #1,091Arely172
- #1,091Dejah172
- #1,091Denisha172
Tied with 4 names at #1,086; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.