Entry № 546 · Arabic origin

Aminah Aminah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Trustworthy (Aminah mother of Prophet Muhammad)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "trustworthy (aminah mother of prophet muhammad)".

Aminah is from the Arabic آمنة (Āminah — trustworthy, secure, faithful) — from Arabic amn (security/trust). Aminah is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Islamic heritage.

Trustworthy (Aminah mother of Prophet Muhammad) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

آمنة
Transliteration
Āminah
Pronunciation
/ əˈmiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aminah stands.

Aminah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aminahs before her.

Real people
Aminah bint Wahb
Mother of Prophet Muhammad + wife of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib + Banu Zuhrah Quraysh.
c. 549 – 577 CE
In fiction
Aminah Wadud
American Islamic feminist scholar + Qur'an and Woman 1992.

Names connected to Aminah.

The number behind Aminah.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aminah reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.