girls:
5.1k births since 1965
#2369 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1965
#3832 (50th percentile)
The name Aminah is the #3,832 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,078 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 50.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,369 (58.6% percentile) for all time with 5,078 births since 1965.
Aminah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (first recorded for girls in 1965). Birth data for Aminah is available in 57 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Aminah reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 30.8% percentile (ranked #657) with 162 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 162 births per million (ranked 30.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aminah ranks #727 for girls (23.3% percentile) with 129 births per million, which is 79.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aminah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Aminah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 18 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Amina" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Amina..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aminah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Aminah is pronounced as uh-MEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-MEE-nuh, at 14.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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