Aminah
#1,160 for girls in 2025, 200 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 306 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,536since 1965
Aminah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aminah has never cracked the top 800 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 | #1,160 | 200 |
| 2024 | #1,004 | 255 |
| 2023 | #1,089 | 226 |
| 2022 | #1,089 | 229 |
| 2021 | #1,160 | 211 |
| 2020 | #1,078 | 229 |
| 2019 | #1,065 | 237 |
| 2018 | #1,053 | 243 |
| 2017 | #887 | 306 |
| 2016 | #1,022 | 259 |
| 2015 | #906 | 303 |
| 2014 | #1,063 | 242 |
| 2013 | #1,616 | 133 |
| 2012 | #1,629 | 132 |
| 2011 | #1,639 | 131 |
| 2010 | #1,703 | 123 |
| 2009 | #1,822 | 118 |
| 2008 | #1,740 | 127 |
| 2007 | #2,147 | 93 |
| 2006 | #2,127 | 91 |
| 2005 | #2,254 | 80 |
| 2004 | #1,714 | 113 |
| 2003 | #1,896 | 96 |
| 2002 | #2,113 | 80 |
| 2001 | #1,765 | 101 |
| 2000 | #1,985 | 84 |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 |
| 1998 | #1,992 | 75 |
| 1997 | #1,802 | 83 |
| 1996 | #1,669 | 91 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 |
| 1994 | #2,353 | 55 |
| 1993 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 1992 | #3,218 | 35 |
| 1991 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 |
| 1985 | #3,246 | 27 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 |
| 1981 | #2,723 | 33 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aminah! It came in at #5,289, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Aminah is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#705 · 1 in 6,045
- California#2,090 · 1 in 30,666
Best ever in a state: #150 in District of Columbia, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #705 | 6 | 1 in 6,045 |
| California | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 30,666 |
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See more about Aminah
- 156 spots since 2024 (#1,004 → #1,160)
- 82 spots since 2020 (#1,078 → #1,160)
- 254 spots since 2015 (#906 → #1,160)
- Biggest jump: 157 spots in 2015 (#1,063 → #906)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 2018 (#887 → #1,053)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2017 at #887 (306 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2015–2017
- Highest: 1 in 5,642 girls born in 2017 were named Aminah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,036 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.1% of all girls named Aminah (2,109) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,250 |
| 1970s | 200 | #2,423 (1977) | #3,699 |
| 1980s | 282 | #2,723 (1981) | #3,206 |
| 1990s | 588 | #1,669 (1996) | #2,441 |
| 2000s | 983 | #1,714 (2004) | #1,956 |
| 2010s | 2,109 | #887 (2017) | #1,258 |
| 2020s | 1,350 | #1,004 (2024) | #1,097 |
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.
Aminah in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 49,415 of them was named Aminah, which outranked 76.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,629Tywanda32
- #2,629Veleka32
- #2,629Willa32
- #2,680Aminah31
- #2,680Alyse31
- #2,680Amberlee31
- #2,680Anamaria31
- #2,741Aliya30
- #2,741Autum30
- #2,741Becki30
Tied with 60 names at #2,680; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.