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Amina

Rare in Poland: most people have never met one, though newborns have picked up over the last few years. The name comes from Hebrew, carrying the sense of faithful and trustworthy.

Amina Pronunciation

Amina is pronounced ah-MEE-nah (/aˈmina/).

Alive in 2025
1,942
Newborns 2025
37
National rank
#712
Meaning & Origin

What Amina means

Where Amina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

The name Amina traces to a Hebrew root, the same family that gives us the word amen, which speaks of faithfulness and trust. The Hebrew verb aman means to be firm or steadfast. From there come the meanings that stay with it: faithful, trustworthy. In English you might say she who can be relied upon.

Its wider fame belongs to Arabic. Amina was the name of the Prophet Muhammad's mother, and Muslim families across many languages have carried it since. The Arabic spelling آمنة holds close to those senses, safe and secure.

In Poland the name arrives from outside the old church calendar. A teacher reading a class register finds it near Zofia and Hania. It settles into Polish speech easily. What stays is the plain meaning: faithful, safe.

How many

How many people are named Amina

1 in 11609 women in Poland is named Amina. 1,942 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #712 among female names.

Living Aminas · 2019 → 2025
1,942 +1,629 since 2019
+43 2020
+58 2021
+123 2022
+1,078 2023
+179 2024
+148 2025
Trend

Amina's popularity over time

37 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #407 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2010.

37 newborn Aminas in 2025
national rank #407 that year
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Regions

Where Amina is most popular

Amina is most popular in Masovian, 111% above the national average (56 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+88%) and Lower Silesian (+87%). It is least common in Lublin and Pomeranian, 74% and 64% below average respectively.

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Middle name

Amina as a middle name

Amina is a first name for 1,942 women in Poland and a middle name for another 75, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 768th, between Tadeusza (76) and Amira (75).

As a first name
1,942
As a middle name
75
first name · 96% middle name · 4%
Middle-name ranking · women

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