Amin

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amin is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Muslim and Indian surname from Arabic Amin, literally ‘trustworthy’.

rarermore common
  • JOJordan1 in 30◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 194
  • PKPakistan1 in 202

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈444K ●

across 8 countries

#370 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
395 ●

3.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 515 ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AmarLatin · Hindi●1.5M records
АмирCyrillic · Russian●220K records
অমরBengali · Bangla●4K records
ᲔმირGeorgian · Georgian●809 records
อามัลThai · Thai●149 records
아미르Hangul · Korean●2 records
ԱմիրArmenian · Armenian●1 records
අමරSinhala · Sinhala●0 records
అమరTelugu · Telugu●0 records
ΑμανGreek · Greek●0 records

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amir in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Amar in IN India, SY Syria, DZ Algeria, Амир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Aman in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador.

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●

Muslim and Indian surname from Arabic Amin, literally ‘trustworthy’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Amin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#574,088,6191.6M rec.—2.1KAmar258
BD Bangladesh#801,376,98340K rec.—listedAmin137
TR Türkiye#159562,932608K rec.—2KEmir110
PK Pakistan#11470,07038K rec.—3Ameen123
US United States#943322,278493K rec.1 in 1K322KAmir395
RU Russia#197221,965123K rec.—#75Амир152
JO Jordan—214,7152.7K rec.——Amman60
MY Malaysia#35106,057102K rec.——Amir96
EG Egypt#12377,20039K rec.—listedAmin152
GB United Kingdom#49364,35948K rec.—48Amir162
IR Iran—49,09243K rec.——Amir119
SY Syria#6647,10964K rec.——Amar33

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English594K38%
  • Bangla558K36%
  • Indonesian70K4%
  • Hindi67K4%
  • Arabic63K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English594,21538%
Bangla558,01536%
Indonesian69,5554%
Hindi67,1024%
Arabic63,1524%

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◐

Amin is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname226K records spelled Amin36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Amin', 'Amin, Ãmîn, Amín, Ãmïň

  • a separate surname105K records spelled Amin10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Ethiopia

    Also written Amīn, A-Min, Ämin, Amín, Āmīn

  • Spanish surname105K records spelled Amin118 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Malaysia, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Amín, Amìn, Amīn, Àmin, Ämïn

  • French surname53K records spelled Amin76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Amîn, Àmin, Amïn, Amín, Àmîñ

  • Pashto surname14K records spelled Amin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan

    Also written Amīn

  • Russian given name12K records spelled Amin111 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Амин, Амін, Amine, Alamin, Ameen

  • Danish surname8.3K records spelled Amin33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Ãmïn, Àmîñ, Ãmįn, Amïñ, Åmïñ

64 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●

Amin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, An arbitrator who assessed and collected revenue in the pargana.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Honest

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Swedish, Amin är bildat till arabiskans al amin ’den som är förtroendeingivande, säker’. Det är ursprungligen ett binamn på profeten Muhammed.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, Arabic; "majestic" or "revered."

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  • In English, Arabic; honest, trustworthy

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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●

020040060080019201940196019802000690 · 1993

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Amin in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1907–2017
Yearrecords
19071
19182
19196
19201
19213
19222
19236
19247
192510
19269
19273
192810
192914
193011
193116
193220
193317
193430
193527
193638
193731
193840
193949
194035
194148
194246
194342
194455
194571
194676
194775
194870
1949133
195093
1951116
1952102
1953149
1954168
1955168
1956152
1957184
1958183
1959238
1960246
1961237
1962246
1963259
1964290
1965295
1966296
1967290
1968266
1969305
1970315
1971323
1972322
1973318
1974293
1975331
1976317
1977292
1978313
1979320
1980371
1981405
1982481
1983421
1984469
1985457
1986454
1987488
1988482
1989532
1990570
1991560
1992611
1993690
1994579
1995540
1996278
1997293
1998183
19999
20011
20021
20071
20086
20091
201016
201114
201212
201324
201419
201532
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 95 years between 1907–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Qasim Amin, b. 1863Ahmad Amin, b. 1886Nurul Amin, b. 1893Idi Amin, b. 1925Hafizullah Amin, b. 1929Samir Amin, b. 1931Ma'ruf Amin, b. 1943Fuad Anwar, b. 1972Ayten Amin, b. 1978Aml Ameen, b. 1985
  • Qasim Aminb. 1863EGEgyptian writer, judge and social reformer (1863–1908)
  • Ahmad Aminb. 1886EGEgyptian historian and writer (1886–1954)
  • Nurul Aminb. 1893PKBengali lawyer, politician and Prime Minister and Vice-President of Pakistan (1893-1974)
  • Idi Aminb. 1925SAPresident of Uganda (1971-1979)
  • Hafizullah Aminb. 1929AFAfghan communist revolutionary, politician and teacher (1929–1979)
  • Samir Aminb. 1931FREgyptian-French economist and political theorist (1931-2018)
  • Ma'ruf Aminb. 1943ID13th Vice President of Indonesia
  • Fuad Anwarb. 1972SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian footballer
  • Ayten Aminb. 1978EGEgyptian film director
  • Aml Ameenb. 1985GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor

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●

Attested in 111 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Amin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202014K#2,462
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,243
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.6K#4,327
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,585
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.6K#688
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.2K#1,259
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.1K#811
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#614
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.1K#2,975
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.6K#1,275
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.2K#918

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 996 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amin?
We estimate roughly 444 thousand people bear Amin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Amin have the most bearers?
Amin is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amar.
How common is Amin compared with other names?
In India, Amin is the 57th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Amin mean?
Recorded meaning: Muslim and Indian surname from Arabic Amin, literally ‘trustworthy’.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amin” — the 57th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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