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Aminah name meaning

“safe; secure”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 8.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s8.9%
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
7

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Aminah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning peaceArabic origin

Aminah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'safe' or 'secure'.

What does Aminah mean?

Safe; secure

In Malay: selamat; terjamin

#Peace#Protection

Sources (1)

About the name Aminah

Aminah comes from the Arabic root أمن, with the sense of safe or secure. It is also the name of the mother of the Prophet Muhammad. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1940s with 2,287 baby girls. Amina is an alternative spelling.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootء م ن · ʾ-m-n
SyllablesA-mi-nah
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptآمنة

Aminah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 2,287 · 8.9%
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Aminah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Aminah

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Amina · behindthename.com · meaning

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