Entry № 549 · Mandinka origin

Aminatta Aminatta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-mee-NAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mandinka
Meaning
"Trustworthy (Sierra Leonean novelist)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Mandinka)

A name that means "trustworthy (sierra leonean novelist)".

Aminatta is the Mandinka feminine of the Arabic amin ("trustworthy"). Aminatta Forna (born 1964) is the Sierra Leonean-British novelist and memoirist whose work explores the legacies of war, particularly the Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002).

Trustworthy (Sierra Leonean novelist) — a Mandinka name.

The name in its native script.

Aminatta
Transliteration
Aminatta
Pronunciation
/ ˌæ.mɪˈnɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aminatta stands.

Aminatta 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.

Aminattas before her.

Real people
Aminatta Forna
Sierra Leonean-British novelist.
born 1964
In fiction
Aminatta
The Memory of Love.
2010

Names connected to Aminatta.

The number behind Aminatta.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aminatta reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.