Aminat
Rare enough that most Poles have never met one: only about 118 women carry it. A Hebrew name at root, brought into Polish through Arabic culture, meaning "trustworthy, faithful".
Aminat Pronunciation
Aminat is pronounced ah-MEE-naht (/aˈminat/).
What Aminat means
Where Aminat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aminat traces back to a Semitic root, the Hebrew aman, meaning to be firm and to be trusted. From that same root Hebrew also draws amen and emunah, faith. The three consonants resurface in Arabic, where amina speaks of safety and reliability, and it is in Arabic-speaking and Muslim communities that Aminat took its shape. The short meaning stays close to the source: trustworthy, faithful.
The name has no diminutives or variants of its own to lean on. It stands as one settled form.
Most Polish readers know amen from church without linking it to a girl's name. Yet the kinship is real, a promise held and a word kept, running from Hebrew liturgy to the sense of trust the name still carries. On a Polish class register Aminat reads as plainly foreign, and the teacher checks the spelling once before the roll continues. Its meaning needs no translation for the child who owns it. Trustworthy, faithful.
How many people are named Aminat
1 in 191049 women in Poland is named Aminat. 118 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3103 among female names.
Aminat as a middle name
Aminat is a first name for 118 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3492nd, between Amie (5) and Anabell (5).
-
#3490 Amaranta5
-
#3491 Amie5
-
#3492 Aminat5
-
#3493 Anabell5
-
#3494 Anastasiya5