Aminah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aminah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aminah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #263 in 2013, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#263highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#717
1997	#672
1998	#561
1999	#427
2000	#472
2001	#435
2002	#428
2003	#412
2004	#394
2005	#393
2006	#346
2007	#352
2008	#363
2009	#364
2010	#354
2011	#280
2012	#270
2013	#263
2014	#286
2015	#300
2016	#320
2017	#350
2018	#356
2019	#371
2020	#478
2021	#447
2022	#419
2023	#381
2024	#429

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #381 among girls in England and Wales, #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #717 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #263 among girls in England and Wales, in 2013 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Aminah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,190 births with the name.

Aminah across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aminah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#717 (1996)	#263 (2013)	#429 (2024)	29 of 29	3,190 (1996–2024)	185 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#586 (2021)	#718 (2025)	5 of 16	20 (2010–2025)	6 (2021)

Aminah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aminah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	187	4 of 10	47
2000s	979	10 of 10	98
2010sbusiest	1,532	10 of 10	153
2020s	492	5 of 10	98

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 153 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 46, from 128 to 174.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aminah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #263 in England and Wales in 2013.

Aminah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#429	100	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#381	109	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#419	101	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#447	98	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#478	84	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#371	118	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#356	131	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#350	134	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#320	156	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#300	159	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#286	166	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#263	181	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#270	185	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#280	174	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#354	128	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#364	119	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#363	121	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#352	124	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#346	125	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#393	100	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#394	95	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#412	87	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#428	75	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#435	70	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#472	63	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#427	71	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#561	48	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#672	36	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#717	32	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #263, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 185 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 14 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Amina · #116, 72y
Aminat · #655, 18y
Aminata · #1386, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Feidhlim · #263, 31y
Clarke · #262, 29y
Corinna · #262, 34y
Dhruv · #262, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cassius · #263, 29y
Coran · #263, 20y
Keziah · #263, 30y
Olivia-Rose · #263, 25y

Aminah was ranked #263 in England and Wales · Girls in 2013. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aminah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aminah without appearing here.

Aminah moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #472 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #435 and #871.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #717 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #672 and #1015.
Linda Compare
In 1997 they stood at #672 and #638 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #561 and #898.
Teresa Compare
In 1997 they stood at #672 and #658 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #561 and #846.

Moved ahead of Aminah

Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #412 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #394 and #155.
Maia Compare
In 1996 they stood at #717 and #753 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #672 and #456.
Ava Compare
In 1999 they stood at #427 and #429 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #472 and #291.
Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #356 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #371 and #218.

Moved the opposite way to Aminah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Aminah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aminah went from #717 to #429 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #263 in England and Wales in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aminah

Aminah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aminah across 2 official records

Aminah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aminah appears in

Popularity data

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Aminah at a glance

Aminah across 2 official records

Aminah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aminah appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aminah

Aminah and the names beside it

Aminah moved ahead of

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