Amina is from the Arabic أَمِينَة (Amīnah — trustworthy, faithful, secure) + Hausa rendition. A modern American baby name in the broader Arabic-Hausa heritage aesthetic. Amina is one of the foundational Arabic + Hausa-Nigerian feminine names — central to traditional Islamic + West African heritage. Aminah bint Wahb (c. 549-577 CE) — foundational mother of the Prophet Muhammad + foundational figure of Islamic + Muslim heritage. Queen Amina of Zazzau (c. 1533-c. 1610) — foundational warrior queen of the Hausa city-state of Zazzau (Zaria, modern Nigeria) + foundational figure of Hausa-Nigerian Indigenous heritage + foundational extender of Zazzau territorial influence across foundational pre-colonial Niger River trade networks + foundational subject of 1985 NTA series Amina + foundational 2021 Netflix Original film Amina (dir. Izu Ojukwu).
Featured throughout Arabic and Nigerian heritage.
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Amina reduces to eight.