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Amina - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Amina
 
 

 



[ syll. a-mi-na, am-ina ] The girl name Amina is pronounced ahMIYNah KEY. Amina's origin and use are both in the Arabic language. Derived from the word amin which has the meaning 'truthful, trustworthy'. Amina is known as the name of the mother of prophet Muhammad. Amina is the feminine form of the Arabic Amin. A form of Amina is the Turkish Emine. The pet form Aminata (Arabic), and the spelling variants Ameena (Arabic) and Aminah (Arabic) are other forms of the name.

Amina is somewhat popular as a baby girl name. The name has been rising in popularity since the 2000s. At the modest peak of its usage in 2007, 0.017% of baby girls were named Amina. It was #800 in rank then. Out of all girl names in its family, Amina was the most commonly used in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Amina include the Arabic Ameena, the Arabic Aamina, the Basque and Spanish Ainhoa, the English Aiyana, the English Allonia, the Basque and Spanish Amaia, the Arabic Amani, the Basque Amaya, the English Amiee, the Arabic Aminah, the English Amya, the Spanish Anahi, the Czech and Italian Anina, the English Aniya, the English Aniyah, the Finnish Anniina, the German Annina, the English Imani, the Romanian and Slavic Ioana, the English and Scottish Iona, the Irish Aine, the Arabic Aman, the English Ami, the English Amie, the English Ammie, the English Amye, the Portuguese and Spanish Ana, the French Anais, the French Anaïs, the Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic Anna, the English Annah, the English Annie, the Polish Anny, the Estonian and Finnish Anu, the English Ayanna, the Hawaiian Henoheno, the Arabic Iman, the Greek Ioanna, the Lithuanian Ona, the Scandinavian Ane, the English Ann, the English, French, and German Anne, the Finnish Aune, and the Scandinavian Unn.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Amina: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


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