Entry № 550 · Arabic origin

Aminetou Aminetou — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-mee-neh-TOO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Trustworthy (Sahrawi-Mauritanian + Aminetou Mint El-Moctar activist)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Sahrawi)

A name that means "trustworthy (sahrawi-mauritanian + aminetou mint el-moctar activist)".

Aminetou is from the Hassaniya Arabic / Sahrawi Aminetou — Sahrawi-Mauritanian rendition of Arabic Amina (أَمِينَة — trustworthy, faithful, secure). Aminetou is one of the Sahrawi + Mauritanian feminine names — central to traditional Western Saharan + Mauritanian Hassaniya Arab-Berber heritage.

Trustworthy (Sahrawi-Mauritanian + Aminetou Mint El-Moctar activist) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Aminetou
Transliteration
Aminetou
Pronunciation
/ ɑː.mi.nɛˈtuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aminetou stands.

Aminetou 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.

Aminetous before her.

Real people
Aminetou Mint El-Moctar
Mauritanian women's rights activist + AFCF founder + International Women of Courage Award nominee.
born 1956
In fiction
Aminetou
Sahrawi-Mauritanian trustworthy.

Names connected to Aminetou.

The number behind Aminetou.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aminetou reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.