Ameenah
Feminine · “Arabic "trustworthy”
Muhammad's mother was Amina, and before he was a prophet the Meccans called him al-Amin — the trustworthy. Mother and son carry the same root, and the byname was reportedly given by people who later opposed him, on the basis of how he handled money.
How old is the name Ameenah?
Ameenah first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Ameenah alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,000 people named Ameenah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ameenah most popular?
Ameenah peaked in 1978, reaching #3283 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 4,602 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ʾ-m-n to Ameenah
The story of Ameenah
The tradition records al-Amin as a byname current in Mecca before the revelation, earned by a reputation for keeping deposits and settling disputes honestly, and it survives in the accounts of the rebuilding of the Kaaba, where Muhammad is asked to arbitrate. Amina bint Wahb, his mother, died when he was six. The root they share is one of the most productive in the language and reaches far beyond Arabic: the Hebrew amen, said at the end of a prayer, is the same word, meaning something like it is firm or so be it, and it entered Greek, Latin and every European language untranslated. The American figures for Ameenah peak in 1978.
Meaning
Arabic "trustworthy, faithful"
From the root ʾ-m-n, to be secure or trustworthy — the root behind amāna, a trust; īmān, faith; and amīn, trustworthy, which is the source of the word amen in Hebrew, Greek and English. Amina is the feminine of amin. Ameenah is a transliteration marking the long vowel with a doubled e.
How the name formed
- ʾ-m-n
- amīna
- Ameenah
Related forms: آمنة · Amina · Emine
Pronouncing Ameenah
ah-MEE-nah
Three syllables, stress on the second, with a long ee. The doubled e is a length mark, not two sounds. Turkish Emine shifts the vowels and stresses the last syllable.
Nicknames for Ameenah
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 201643 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3283reached in 1978
- Change vs 2024
- −43.5%13 in 2025, from 23
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.
Ameenah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- آمنة in Arabic — transliteration
- Amina in English — spelling variant
- Emine in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, California, New York.
Ameenahs among us
people named Ameenah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Ameenah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ameenah
- #7885
- Ameenah on the 2025 chart
- #835
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ameenah went to 13 girls in 2025, but Ameena, Amena 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 — 7,050 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,858 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Ameenah 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 Gwendalyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ameenah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gwendalyn climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gwendalyn's path sketches the road Ameenah is walking now.
Ameenah 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
Ameenah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ameenah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and entirely positive.
- Mina and Meena are ready short forms that stand alone.
- It is used across the entire Muslim world.
- Amina is the more common transliteration.
- The initial Arabic vowel carries a glottal stop English drops.
- It is rare in the United States and will need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ameenahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Ameenah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ameenah?
- Ameenah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Ameena is the more common one — 77 births in 2025 against 13 for Ameenah.
- How popular is the name Ameenah in 2025?
- Ameenah ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ameenah?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Ameenah — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ameenah with classmates?
- Ameenah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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