Amena

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Amina in IN India, US United States, SY Syria and 11 more, Амина in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Amani in FR France, ES Spain, SA Saudi Arabia and Aminah in ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Amena is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Arabic given name10K records spelled Amena3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, United States, Türkiye

  Also written A'Mena, Aména

• Amharic given name292 records spelled Amena2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, United States, Türkiye

  Also written አመና

• Russian given name292 records spelled Amena9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Syria, Poland, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

  Also written Амена, Ameno, Амено

• Finnish given name181 records spelled Amena3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, India

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Ämënä

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Amena is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, third-person singular past historic of amener

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, feminine singular of ameno

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Catalan, feminine singular of amè

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of amen

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In huu, tree

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In umb, sit along ; favor, be partial to

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Umbundu Language

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 104 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Amena Gulb. 1993THThai actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 334 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amena?

We estimate roughly 113 thousand people bear Amena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Amena have the most bearers?

Amena is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled aminah.

How common is Amena compared with other names?

In Indonesia, Amena is the 5th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.

Is Amena a male or female name?

Amena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.