Amina

Amina
ʾĀmina آمنة
ʾAmīna أمينة
Pronunciation	آمنة (ʾĀmina): Arabic: [ˈʔæːm(ɪ)næ]; أمينة (ʾAmīna): Arabic: [ʔæˈmiːnæ]
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	آمنة (ʾĀmina): safe one, protected; أمينة (ʾAmīna): devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief (believable), loyal, faithful, obedient of Iman
Other names
Related names	Aminah, Aminat, Aminas, Aminna, Amiina, Amine, Aminka, Aminke, Amines, Aminei, Aminata, Amiwata

Amina (or Aminah) is the loose transcription of two different Arabic female given names:

ʾĀmina (Arabic: آمنة, also anglicized as Aaminah or Amna) meaning "safe one, protected"
ʾAmīna (Arabic: أمينة, also anglicized as Ameena), the feminine form of Amin, meaning "devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief (believable), loyal, faithful, obedient of Iman".

The name is highly popular in Nigeria owing to Amina of Zazzau, a legendary Hausa warrior queen. Likewise in the neighbouring Cameroon and Niger. Its popularity across Asia and North Africa owes to Amina bint Wahb, the mother of Prophet Muhammad. In French-speaking West Africa, the name is rendered as Aminata and is as well popular.

Women named Āmina

Amina bint Wahb (549–577), mother of Muhammad
Aaminah Haq (born 1973), Pakistani model and actress
See also people listed at Amna

Women named Amīna

Amina (Queen of Zazzau) (1533–1610), Hausa warrior queen of Zazzau (now Zaria), in what is now northwest Nigeria
Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (1954–2012), Moroccan princess
Amina of the Maldives, or Amina Rani Kilegefa’anu (1745–??), monarch, as Sultana regnant, of the Maldives from 1757 until 1759 after acting as regent from 1753 until 1757
Amina Abbas (born 1942), First Lady of Palestine
Amina Mohamed Abdi (1981–2022), Somali politician
Amina Bint al-Majlisi, female Safavid mujtahideh
Amina Adil (1930–2004), Tatar writer and Islamic theologian
Amina Afzali (born 1957), Afghani politician and government minister
Amina Alaoui (born 1964), Moroccan interpreter of Andalusian classical music
Amina Annabi (born 1962), French-Tunisian singer
Amina Atakhanova (born 2002), Russian pair skater
Amina Bakhit (born 1990), Sudanese middle-distance runner
Amina Bazindre (born 1955), Nigerien diplomat
Amina Belouizdad (1931–2015), first female presenter on Algerian television
Amina Benkhadra (born 1954), Moroccan politician
Amina Bettiche (born 1987), Algerian steeplechase runner
Amina Begum (died 1760), mother of Shuja-ud-Daula the last ruler of Bengal
Amina Belkadi (born 1992), Algerian judoka
Amina Bouayach (born 1957), Moroccan human rights activist
Amina Cachalia (1930–2013), South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist and politician
Amina Chifupa (1976–2007), Tanzanian politician and MP
Amina Clement (born 1963), Tanzanian politician and MP
Amina Dagi (born 1995), Russian-Austrian model and beauty pageant titleholder
Amina Desai (died 2009), South Africa's longest serving female Indian political prisoner
Amina Dilbazi (1919–2010), Azerbaijani folk dancer
Amina Doherty, Nigerian women's rights advocate
Amina Edris (born 1991), Egyptian-New Zealand lyric soprano
Amina Figarova (born 1964), Azerbaijani jazz composer and pianist
Amina Filali (1996–2012), Moroccan 16-year-old girl who committed suicide in 2012 after she was forced to marry her rapist
Amina Gautier, American writer and academic
Amina Gerba (born 1961), Cameroonian–Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur
Amina Goodwin (1867–1942), English pianist, composer, and music educator
Amina Aït Hammou (born 1978), Moroccan runner
Amina Helmi (born 1970), Argentine astronomer and professor
Amina Moghe Hersi (born 1964), Somali entrepreneur
Amina Hydari (1878–1939), Indian social worker
Amina Ahmed El-Imam (born 1983), Nigerian microbiologist, academic and politician
Amina Inloes, American scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, translator
Amina Al Jassim, Saudi Arabian fashion designer of haute couture and jellabiyas
Amina Khalil (born 1988), Egyptian actress
Amina Lawal (born 1973), Nigerian woman convicted by Islamic Sharia court in 2002
Amina Lemrini, Moroccan human rights activist
Amina Luqman-Dawson, American author
Amina Pirani Maggi (1892–1979), Italian actress
Amina Maher (born 1992), Iranian-born queer feminist artist, activist, actress, and filmmaker
Amina Mama (born 1958), Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic
Amina Memon (born 1961), social and cognitive psychologist, academic, and author
Amina Mohamed (born 1961), Somali lawyer, diplomat and politician
Amina J. Mohammed (born 1961), United Nations Special Adviser
Amina Claudine Myers (born 1942), American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arranger
Amina Okueva (1983–2017), Ukrainian doctor, Euromaidan activist, and police lieutenant
Amina Lahbabi-Peters, Moroccan interpreter and translator
Amina Priscille Longoh (born 1991), Chadian humanitarian organizer and politician
Amina Pollard, American limnologist and ecologist
Amina Abdi Rabar (born 1989), Kenyan TV and radio presenter
Amina Rachid (1936–2019), Moroccan actress
Amina Rakhim (born 1989), Kazakhstani tennis player
Amina Rizk (1910–2003), Egyptian actress
Amina Rouba (born 1986), Algerian rower
Amina Al Rustamani, Emirati businesswoman
Amina Al Said (1914–1995), an Egyptian journalist and feminist
Amina Said (born 1953), Tunisian francophone author
Amina Sato (born 1990), Japanese voice actress
Amina Shah (1918–2014), anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales
Amina Shah (librarian), Scottish librarian
Amina Srarfi (born 1958), Tunisian musician
Amina Hanum Syrtlanoff (1884–??), public figure, sister of mercy, theosophist, mason
Amina Taher (born 1983), Emirati airline marketing executive, businesswoman, and women's rights advocate
Amina Tyler (born 1994), Tunisian activist associated with Femen
Amina Wadud (born 1952), American feminist
Amina Wali, Pakistani alpine skier
Amina Yuguda, Nigerian journalist
Amina Yusifgizi (1936–2025), Azerbaijani actress
Amina Zakari (born 1960), Nigerian politician
Amina Zaripova (born 1976), Russian rhythmic gymnast
Amina Zaydan (born 1966), Egyptian novelist and short story writer
Amina Zidani (born 1993), French boxer
Amina Zoubir (born 1983), Algerian artist

Aminah

Aminah Assilmi (1945–2010), American broadcast journalist
Aminah Cendrakasih (1938–2022), Indonesian actress
Aminah McCloud (born 1948), American Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic World Studies
Aminah Robinson (1940–2015), American artist
Amīnah al-Saʿīd (1914–1995), Egyptian journalist and women's rights activist

Amena

Amena Begum (1925–1989), Pakistani politician, former MP of East Pakistan
Amena Khan (born 1983), British-Indian model and fashion designer

Ameena

Ameena Ahmad Ahuja, Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist
Ameena Begum (1892–1949), birth name Ora Ray Baker, wife of Sufi Master Inayat Khan
Ameena Begum (politician), Bangladeshi politician and Member of Parliament
Ameena Hussein (born 1964), Sri Lankan sociologist, novelist, editor
Ameena Saiyid, Pakistani publisher
Ameena, Indian trafficking victim of the Ameena case

Ameenah

Ameenah Gurib (born 1959), 6th President of the Republic of Mauritius
Ameenah Kaplan (born 1974), American actress, musician and choreographer

Amineh

Amineh Kakabaveh (born 1970), Swedish politician of Iranian Kurdish descent
Amineh Kazemzadeh (born 1963), Iranian painter

Fictional characters

Amina, a sleepwalking character in the opera La sonnambula
Ameena Badawi, in TV series EastEnders
Amina Hydrose, in the 1991 Indian film Amina Tailors
Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari, fictional character or hoax persona created and maintained by American Tom MacMaster
A character in The Equalizer 3