# Amina

Amina (or Aminah) is the loose transcription of two different Arabic female given names:
* ʾĀmina (Arabic: آمنة, also anglicized as Aaminah or Amna) meaning "safe one, protected"
* ʾAmīna (Arabic: أمينة, also anglicized as Ameena), the feminine form of Amin, meaning "devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief (believable), loyal, faithful, obedient of Iman".

## Women named Āmina

* Amina bint Wahb (549–577), mother of Muhammad
* Amina bint Affan, was the sister of third Muslim caliph Uthman (r. 644–656).
* Aaminah Haq, Pakistani model and actress
* See also people listed at Amna

## Women named Amīna

* Amina (Queen of Zazzau) (died 1610), Hausa warrior queen of Zazzau (now Zaria), in what is now northwest Nigeria
* Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (1954–2012), Moroccan princess
* Amina of the Maldives, or Amina Rani Kilegefa’anu (fl. 1759), monarch, as Sultana regnant, of the Maldives from 1757 until 1759 after acting as regent from 1753 until 1757
* Amina Abbas (born 1942), First Lady of Palestine
* Amina Mohamed Abdi (1981–2022), Somali politician
* Amina Bint al-Majlisi, female Safavid mujtahideh
* Amina Adil (1930–2004), Tatar writer and Islamic theologian
* Amina Afzali (born 1957), Afghani politician and government minister
* Amina Alaoui (born 1964), Moroccan interpreter of Andalusian classical music
* Amina Annabi (born 1962), French-Tunisian singer
* Amina Atakhanova (born 2002), Russian pair skater
* Amina Bakhit (born 1990), Sudanese middle-distance runner
* Amina Bazindre, Nigerien diplomat
* Amina Belouizdad (1931–2015), first female presenter on Algerian television
* Amina Benkhadra (born 1954), Moroccan politician
* Amina Bettiche (born 1987), Algerian steeplechase runner
* Amina Begum, mother of Shuja-ud-Daula the last ruler of Bengal
* Amina Belkadi (born 1992), Algerian judoka
* Amina Bouayach (born 1957), Moroccan human rights activist
* Amina Cachalia (1930–2013), South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist and politician
* Amina Chaouk (born 1972), Abir Chaouk's mother
* Amina Chifupa (1976–2007), Tanzanian politician and MP
* Amina Clement (born 1963), Tanzanian politician and MP
* Amina Dagi (born 1995), Russian-Austrian model and beauty pageant titleholder
* Amina Desai (?–2009), South Africa's longest serving female Indian political prisoner
* Amina Dilbazi (1919–2010), Azerbaijani folk dancer
* Amina Doherty, Nigerian women's rights advocate
* Amina Edris, Egyptian-New Zealand lyric soprano
* Amina Figarova (born 1964), 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 (born 1961), Cameroonian–Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur
* Amina Goodwin (1867–1942), English pianist, composer, and music educator
* Amina Aït Hammou (born 1978), Moroccan runner
* Amina Helmi (born 1970), Argentine astronomer and professor
* Amina Moghe Hersi (born 1964), Somali entrepreneur
* Amina Hydari (1878–1939), Indian social worker
* Amina Ahmed El-Imam (born 1983), 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 (born 1988), Egyptian actress
* Amina Lawal (born 1973), Nigerian woman convicted by Islamic Sharia court in 2002
* Amina Lemrini, Moroccan human rights activist
* Amina Luqman-Dawson, American author
* Amina Pirani Maggi (1892–1979), Italian actress
* Amina Maher (born 1992), Iranian-born queer feminist artist, activist, actress, and filmmaker
* Amina Mama (born 1958), Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic
* Amina Mohamed (born 1961), Somali lawyer, diplomat and politician
* Amina J. Mohammed (born 1961), United Nations Special Adviser
* Amina Claudine Myers (born 1942), American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arranger
* Amina Okueva (1983–2017), Ukrainian doctor, Euromaidan activist, and police lieutenant
* Amina Lahbabi-Peters, Moroccan interpreter and translator
* Amina Priscille Longoh (born 1991), Chadian humanitarian organizer and politician
* Amina Pollard, American limnologist and ecologist
* Amina Abdi Rabar (born 1989), Kenyan TV and radio presenter
* Amina Rachid (1936–2019), Moroccan actress
* Amina Rakhim (born 1989), Kazakhstani tennis player
* Amina Rizk (1910–2003), Egyptian actress
* Amina Rouba (born 1986), Algerian rower
* Amina Al Rustamani, Emirati businesswoman
* Amina Al Said (1914–1995), an Egyptian journalist and feminist
* Amina Said (born 1953), Tunisian francophone author
* Amina Sato (born 1990), Japanese voice actress
* Amina Shah (1918–2014), anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales
* Amina Shah (librarian), Scottish librarian
* Amina Srarfi (born 1958), Tunisian musician
* Amina Hanum Syrtlanoff (1884–?), public figure, sister of mercy, theosophist, mason
* Amina Taher, Emirati airline marketing executive, businesswoman, and women's rights advocate
* Amina Tyler (born 1994), Tunisian activist associated with Femen
* Amina Wadud (born 1952), American feminist
* Amina Wali, Pakistani alpine skier
* Amina Yuguda, Nigerian journalist
* Amina Zakari (born 1960), Nigerian politician
* Amina Zaripova (born 1976), Russian rhythmic gymnast
* Amina Zaydan (born 1966), Egyptian novelist and short story writer
* Amina Zidani (born 1993), French boxer
* Amina Zoubir (born 1983), Algerian artist
* Amina Crudu (born 2010), Gurinel artist #gurineltv #AminaCrudu #ShakeUpChristmas

### Aminah

* Aminah Assilmi (1945–2010), American broadcast journalist
* Aminah Cendrakasih (1938–2022), Indonesian actress
* Aminah McCloud, American Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic World Studies
* Aminah Robinson (1940–2015), American artist
* Amīnah al-Saʿīd (1914–1995), Egyptian journalist and women's rights activist

### Amena

* Amena Begum, Pakistani politician, former MP of East Pakistan
* Amena Khan (born 1983), British-Indian model and fashion designer

### Ameena

* Ameena Ahmad Ahuja, Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist
* Ameena Begum (1892–1949), birth name Ora Ray Baker, wife of Sufi Master Inayat Khan
* Ameena Begum (politician), Bangladeshi politician and Member of Parliament
* Ameena Hussein (born 1964), Sri Lankan sociologist, novelist, editor
* Ameena Saiyid, Pakistani publisher
* Ameena, Indian trafficking victim of the Ameena case

### Ameenah

* Ameenah Ayub Allen, British film actress
* Ameenah Gurib (born 1959), 6th President of the Republic of Mauritius
* Ameenah Kaplan (born 1974), American actress, musician and choreographer

### Amineh

* Amineh Kakabaveh (born 1970), Swedish politician of Iranian Kurdish descent
* Amineh Kazemzadeh (born 1963), 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