Aminata
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aminata is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mali it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Good character.
- SNSenegal1 in 211◐
- FRFrance1 in 7.4K
- BEBelgium1 in 14K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- Sources
- 239 ●
- 1 in 7.4K ◐
across 9 countries
41K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Good character
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #822 | 9,160 | 28K rec. | 1 in 7.4K | 9.2K | Aminata | 239 |
| US United States | — | 3,472 | 5.3K rec. | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Aminata | 165 |
| SN Senegal | #20 | 3,197 | 1.1K rec. | — | 107 | Aminata | 48 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,611△ | 760 rec. | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Aminata | 36 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,116 | 1K rec. | — | 16 | Aminata | 37 |
| ML Mali | #18 | 777 | 757 rec. | — | 35 | Aminata | 29 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #734 | 639 | 687 rec. | — | — | Aminata | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 528 | 240 rec. | — | — | Aminata | 45 |
| IT Italy | — | 464 | 465 rec. | — | 30 | Aminata | 23 |
| EG Egypt | — | 317 | 271 rec. | — | — | Aminata | 11 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #118 | 253 | 266 rec. | — | — | Aminata | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 178 | 142 rec. | 1 in 57K | 178 | — | 11 |
Roughly 9.2K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 7.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French75K65%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)15K13%
- English9.3K8%
- Spanish4.8K4%
- Catalan1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 75,024 | 65% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 14,540 | 13% |
| English | 9,342 | 8% |
| Spanish | 4,787 | 4% |
| Catalan | 1,611 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aminata is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Wolof, Wolof (Senegal): a popular female name.
as a nameAfrican Names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 30 |
| 1995 | 30 |
| 1996 | 25 |
| 1997 | 34 |
| 1998 | 40 |
| 1999 | 49 |
| 2000 | 67 |
| 2001 | 55 |
| 2002 | 76 |
| 2003 | 74 |
| 2004 | 55 |
| 2005 | 77 |
| 2006 | 77 |
| 2007 | 67 |
| 2008 | 87 |
| 2009 | 80 |
| 2010 | 71 |
| 2011 | 76 |
| 2012 | 68 |
| 2013 | 85 |
| 2014 | 77 |
| 2015 | 99 |
| 2016 | 83 |
| 2017 | 79 |
| 2018 | 68 |
| 2019 | 95 |
| 2020 | 67 |
| 2021 | 66 |
| 2022 | 81 |
| 2023 | 68 |
| 2024 | 80 |
| 2025 | 73 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 48 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Aminata Fallb. 1930SNSenegalese actor (1930-2002)
- Aminata Maïga Kab. 1940SNSenegalese writer (1940-2005)
- Aminata Sow Fallb. 1941SNSenegalese writer
- Aminata Dramane Traoréb. 1947MLMalian politician
- Aminata Touréb. 1952GNGuinean politician (1952-2022)
- Aminata Touréb. 1962SNSenegalese prime minister
- Aminata Touréb. 1992DEGerman politician
- Aminata Savadogob. 1993LVLatvian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
- Aminata Haidarab. 1997CIIvorian footballer
- Keïta Aminata MaigaMLMalian healthcare and children's advocate
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 66 sources across 43 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 213 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aminata?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Aminata (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aminata have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 9.2 thousand people bear Aminata in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aminata.
- How common is Aminata compared with other names?
- In France, Aminata is the 822nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Aminata a male or female name?
- Aminata 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.
- What does the name Aminata mean?
- Recorded meaning: Good character
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aminata” — the 822nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.