Aminu

given name · English · Latin script

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

Aminu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: trustworthy, faithful.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 760◐
  • KEKenya1 in 45K
  • GHGhana1 in 52K

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

≈17 ●

across 4 countries

Sources
114 ●

102K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 351K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

trustworthy, faithful

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Aminu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#4995,816100K rec.—listedAminu114
KE Kenya—6410 rec.——Aminu4
US United States—5751K rec.—5Aminu110
GH Ghana#392325355 rec.——Aminu38
GB United Kingdom—158212 rec.——Aminu60
IN India—157125 rec.—9Aminu21
MY Malaysia—4620 rec.——Aminu15
DE Germany—4577 rec.——Aminu27
CN China—375 rec.——Aminu6
CA Canada—1818 rec.——Aminu12
ET Ethiopia—1827 rec.——Aminu6
SE Sweden—9△2 rec.1 in 1.1M9—2

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

Languages●

  • English97K54%
  • Swahili40K22%
  • Indonesian7.5K4%
  • Amharic5.6K3%
  • Arabic5.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English97,26254%
Swahili39,54622%
Indonesian7,5034%
Amharic5,6363%
Arabic5,3583%

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◐

Aminu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic given name24K records spelled Aminu5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ethiopia, United States, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Amharic, Arabic

    Also written Amenu, አሚኑ, አምኑ

  • Spanish given name4.1K records spelled Aminu6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, France, Ghana

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Àmînû

  • Japanese given name2.5K records spelled Aminu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Japan, Ghana

    Also written Amînu

42 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.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Aminu Kano, b. 1920Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, b. 1966Aminu S Bono, b. 1983Aminu Abubakar Zayd, b. 1983

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 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Aminu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—27#68,554
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—27#67,696
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#25,429
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#23,834
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#37,616
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—9#135,080
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20255—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#20,500
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#19,171
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4#60,758
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—3#12,971
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aminu?
We estimate roughly 17 people bear Aminu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Aminu have the most bearers?
Aminu is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled aminu.
How common is Aminu compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Aminu is the 49th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Aminu a male or female name?
Aminu is a male 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 Aminu mean?
Recorded meaning: trustworthy, faithful
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Aminu” — the 49th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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