Ameena
Feminine · “trustworthy”
Ameena is trustworthy in Arabic — and Amina was the Prophet's mother, who died when he was six.
How old is the name Ameena?
Ameena first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Ameena is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,900 people named Ameena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ameena most popular?
Ameena peaked in 2015, reaching #2169 nationally. Today it ranks #2354, 185 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
Where it comes from
From '-m-n to Ameena
The story of Ameena
Amina bint Wahb was the Prophet's mother and died when he was six, leaving him an orphan twice over. The root behind her name gave him his own pre-prophetic epithet, al-Amin — the trustworthy one — earned in trade. Ameena is one of several spellings and is in current American use.
Meaning
trustworthy, faithful
From the Arabic amina, the feminine of amin, 'trustworthy', from the root '-m-n — the same root behind iman, 'faith', and the word amen. Al-Amin, 'the trustworthy', was the Prophet's epithet before his mission. The Arabic is documented.
How the name formed
- '-m-n
- amina
- Ameena
Related forms: آمنة · Amina · Amina
Pronouncing Ameena
ah-MEE-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Arabic Amina stresses the first.
Nicknames for Ameena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 201587 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2169reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +32.8%77 in 2025, from 58
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ameena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- آمنة in Arabic — transliteration
- Amina in English — spelling variant
- Amina in Swahili — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Ameenas among us
people named Ameena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,874 born in 2025 was named Ameena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ameena
- #2354
- Ameena on the 2025 chart
- #835
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ameena went to 77 girls in 2025, but Amena, Ameenah and Amenah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 125, which makes it the 835th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,519 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,858 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,874 for Ameena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Suzana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ameena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Suzana climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Suzana's path sketches the road Ameena is walking now.
Ameena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ameena is headed
Ameena is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ameena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ameena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the Prophet's own epithet came from the same root as his mother's name is a first-rate fact.
- The trustworthy meaning is transparent and warm.
- Ami and Mina are two short forms, both with real records.
- Amina is the commoner transliteration.
- Arabic and English stress it differently.
- It reads as specifically Muslim.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ameenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Ameena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ameena?
- Ameena is the most-used spelling in US records — 77 of the 125 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Amena, Ameenah and Amenah.
- How popular is the name Ameena in 2025?
- Ameena ranks #2354 among US girl names in 2025, with 77 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ameena?
- About 1 in every 20,874 US girls born in 2025 was named Ameena — 77 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ameena with classmates?
- Ameena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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