Amina
Amina is the loose transcription of two different Arabic female given names:ʾĀmina meaning "safe one, protected"ʾAmīna, the feminine form of Amin, meaning "devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief, 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, mother of Muhammad
- Aaminah Haq, Pakistani model and actress
- See also people listed at Amna
Women named Amīna
- Amina (Queen of Zazzau), Hausa warrior queen of Zazzau, in what is now northwest Nigeria
- Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco, Moroccan princess
- Amina of the Maldives, or Amina Rani Kilegefa’anu, monarch, as Sultana regnant, of the Maldives from 1757 until 1759 after acting as regent from 1753 until 1757
- Amina Abbas, First Lady of Palestine
- Amina Mohamed Abdi, Somali politician
- Amina Bint al-Majlisi, female Safavid mujtahideh
- Amina Adil, Tatar writer and Islamic theologian
- Amina Afzali, Afghani politician and government minister
- Amina Alaoui, Moroccan interpreter of Andalusian classical music
- Amina Annabi, French-Tunisian singer
- Amina Atakhanova, Russian pair skater
- Amina Bakhit, Sudanese middle-distance runner
- Amina Bazindre, Nigerien diplomat
- Amina Belouizdad, first female presenter on Algerian television
- Amina Benkhadra, Moroccan politician
- Amina Bettiche, Algerian steeplechase runner
- Amina Begum, mother of Shuja-ud-Daula the last ruler of Bengal
- Amina Belkadi, Algerian judoka
- Amina Bouayach, Moroccan human rights activist
- Amina Cachalia, South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist and politician
- Amina Chifupa, Tanzanian politician and MP
- Amina Clement, Tanzanian politician and MP
- Amina Dagi, Russian-Austrian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Amina Desai, South Africa's longest serving female Indian political prisoner
- Amina Dilbazi, Azerbaijani folk dancer
- Amina Doherty, Nigerian women's rights advocate
- Amina Edris, Egyptian-New Zealand lyric soprano
- Amina Figarova, Azerbaijani jazz composer and pianist
- Amina Filali, 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, Cameroonian–Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur
- Amina Goodwin, English pianist, composer, and music educator
- Amina Aït Hammou, Moroccan runner
- Amina Helmi, Argentine astronomer and professor
- Amina Moghe Hersi, Somali entrepreneur
- Amina Hydari, Indian social worker
- Amina Ahmed El-Imam, 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, Egyptian actress
- Amina Lawal, Nigerian woman convicted by Islamic Sharia court in 2002
- Amina Lemrini, Moroccan human rights activist
- Amina Luqman-Dawson, American author
- Amina Pirani Maggi, Italian actress
- Amina Maher, Iranian-born queer feminist artist, activist, actress, and filmmaker
- Amina Mama, Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic
- Amina Memon, social and cognitive psychologist, academic, and author
- Amina Mohamed, Somali lawyer, diplomat and politician
- Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Special Adviser
- Amina Claudine Myers, American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arranger
- Amina Okueva, Ukrainian doctor, Euromaidan activist, and police lieutenant
- Amina Lahbabi-Peters, Moroccan interpreter and translator
- Amina Priscille Longoh, Chadian humanitarian organizer and politician
- Amina Pollard, American limnologist and ecologist
- Amina Abdi Rabar, Kenyan TV and radio presenter
- Amina Rachid, Moroccan actress
- Amina Rakhim, Kazakhstani tennis player
- Amina Rizk, Egyptian actress
- Amina Rouba, Algerian rower
- Amina Al Rustamani, Emirati businesswoman
- Amina Al Said, an Egyptian journalist and feminist
- Amina Said, Tunisian francophone author
- Amina Sato, Japanese voice actress
- Amina Shah, anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales
- Amina Shah (librarian), Scottish librarian
- Amina Srarfi, Tunisian musician
- Amina Hanum Syrtlanoff, public figure, sister of mercy, theosophist, mason
- Amina Taher, Emirati airline marketing executive, businesswoman, and women's rights advocate
- Amina Tyler, Tunisian activist associated with Femen
- Amina Wadud, American feminist
- Amina Wali, Pakistani alpine skier
- Amina Yuguda, Nigerian journalist
- Amina Yusifgizi, Azerbaijani actress
- Amina Zakari, Nigerian politician
- Amina Zaripova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
- Amina Zaydan, Egyptian novelist and short story writer
- Amina Zidani, French boxer
- Amina Zoubir, Algerian artist
Aminah
- Aminah Assilmi, American broadcast journalist
- Aminah Cendrakasih, Indonesian actress
- Aminah McCloud, American Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic World Studies
- Aminah Robinson, American artist
- Amīnah al-Saʿīd, Egyptian journalist and women's rights activist
Amena
- Amena Begum, Pakistani politician, former MP of East Pakistan
- Amena Khan, British-Indian model and fashion designer
Ameena
- Ameena Ahmad Ahuja, Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist
- Ameena Begum, birth name Ora Ray Baker, wife of Sufi Master Inayat Khan
- Ameena Begum (politician), Bangladeshi politician and Member of Parliament
- Ameena Hussein, Sri Lankan sociologist, novelist, editor
- Ameena Saiyid, Pakistani publisher
- Ameena, Indian trafficking victim of the Ameena case
Ameenah
- Ameenah Gurib, 6th President of the Republic of Mauritius
- Ameenah Kaplan, American actress, musician and choreographer
Amineh
- Amineh Kakabaveh, Swedish politician of Iranian Kurdish descent
- Amineh Kazemzadeh, 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''