Amin (name)
Pronunciation | Arabic: [ʔamiːn] |
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Gender | Male |
Language(s) | Arabic |
Origin | |
Word/name | Arabic |
Meaning | Truthful |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Amine, Ameen, Amien, ʾAmīn |
Variant form(s) | Al-Amin |
Nickname(s) | Amz |
Derived | أ-م-ن (ʾ-m-n) (security) |
Popularity | see popular names |
Amin or Ameen (Arabic: أمين amīn) is an Arabic male given name meaning "devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief (believable), loyal, faithful, obedient".
The Arabic female form of Amin is Amina.
The name has been loaned into a few other languages, namely ones spoken by Muslim populations.
In Persian ( امین amīn) it has the same meaning.
The Turkish written form of the name Amin is Emin. It is also the name of the title Emin of an Ottoman official.
Other spellings include Amine and Amien.
Persons[]
Notable people named Amin include:
Regnal name[]
- Al-Amin (787–813), also known as Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd, better known by his regnal name Al-Amin, the sixth Abbasid Caliph, ruling from 809 until 813
Given name[]
- Amin (Qing dynasty) (1585–1640), Manchu noble and political leader
- Amin al-Rihani (1876–1940), Lebanese author
- Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997), Pakistani Muslim scholar
- Amin al-Hafiz (1921–2009), Syrian leader
- Amin al-Hafez (Lebanon) (1926–2009), Lebanese politician
- Amin Yunis al Husseini (1929–2016), Jordanian politician
- Amine Gemayel (born 1942), President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988
- Amin Maalouf (born 1949), Lebanese author
- Amin Osman (1898–1946), Egyptian politician
- Amin Hossein Rahimi (born 1968), Iranian politician
- Amien Rais (born 1944), Indonesian politician
- Amin Abu Rashid (born 1966/1967), Palestinian-Dutch Hamas leader
- Amin Stevens (born 1990), American professional basketball player for Elitzur Kiryat Ata in Israel
Middle name[]
- , 9th-century Abbasid prince and son of Abbasid caliph al-Amin
- , 9th-century Abbasid prince and son of Abbasid caliph al-Amin
- Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (c. 1897–1974), Mufti of Jerusalem
- Mohamed Amin Didi (1910–1954), president of the Maldives from 1953 to 1954
- Sami Amin Al-Arian (born 1958), Palestinian political activist, computer engineering professor in the United States, convicted of aiding a terrorist organization
Surname / family name[]
- Adam Amin (born 1986), American sportscaster
- Ash Amin (born 1955), British geographer
- Ehab Amin (born 1995), Egyptian basketball player
- Esperidião Amin (born 1947), Brazilian politician
- Hafizullah Amin (1929–1979), 2nd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Hájí Amín (1831–1928), one of the 19 Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, of the Bahá'í Faith
- Haron Amin (died 2015), Afghan diplomat
- Hassan Amin (disambiguation), several people
- Idi Amin (1925–2003), President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
- Khadija Amin, Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and Member of Parliament
- Mohamed Amin (1943–1996) (also known as 'Mo'), Kenyan photojournalist and entrepreneur
- Riaz Amin (born 1998), English professional martial artist
- Samir Amin (born 1931), Egyptian political author
See also[]
- Amin (disambiguation)
- Amin al-Dawla (disambiguation), an honorific title
- Ameen, a surname
Categories:
- Surnames
- Arabic masculine given names
- Pakistani masculine given names
- Malaysian masculine given names
- Bengali Muslim surnames