Entry № 1490 · Hausa origin

Binta Binta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEEN-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hausa
Meaning
"Daughter (Hausa Wolof heritage; Roots)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "daughter (hausa wolof heritage; roots)".

Binta is from the Hausa, Wolof, and broader West African Arabic-influenced Binta — short form of bint (daughter). Binta in Hausa tradition — used widely across northern Nigerian Hausa-speaking communities (the Hausa people are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa with over 80 million speakers). Binta Diallo — modern Senegalese-American figure. Binta Sidibé — modern Malian-American figure.

Daughter (Hausa Wolof heritage; Roots) — a Hausa name.

The name in its native script.

بنت
Transliteration
Binta
Pronunciation
/ ˈbiːn.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Binta stands.

Binta 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.

Bintas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Binta Kinte
Iconic mother of Kunta Kinte in Roots.
1976

Names connected to Binta.

The number behind Binta.

1

The Leader

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