Entry № 548 · West African origin

Aminata Aminata — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-mee-NAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
West African
Meaning
"Trustworthy, honest"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (West African)

A name that means "trustworthy, honest".

Aminata is the West African (Senegalese, Malian, Guinean) form of the Arabic Amina — meaning "trustworthy" or "honest." Amina was the name of the Prophet Muhammad's mother.

Aminata Touré (born 1962), the Senegalese politician and former Prime Minister, is a contemporary bearer.

Trustworthy. The mother of the Prophet.

The name in its native script.

Aminata
Transliteration
Aminata
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.miˈnɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aminata stands.

Aminata 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.

Aminatas before her.

Real people
Aminata Touré
Senegalese former Prime Minister.
born 1962
In fiction
Aminata Diallo
Heroine of Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes.
2007 novel

Names connected to Aminata.

The number behind Aminata.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aminata reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.