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Araminta

Meaning unknown.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#7,133

Meaning and history

Meaning unknown. The name was first used by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor (1693) and later by John Vanbrugh in his comedy The Confederacy (1705). It was also the original given name of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820–1913), who was born Araminta Ross.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: 5 births, rank #17,636
2008: no US SSA record for this spelling
2009: no US SSA record for this spelling
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: no US SSA record for this spelling
2013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: no US SSA record for this spelling
2015: 5 births, rank #16,419
20162016: no US SSA record for this spelling
2017: no US SSA record for this spelling
2018: 13 births, rank #8,146
2019: 11 births, rank #9,112
2020: 9 births, rank #10,250
20212021: 14 births, rank #7,630
2022: 8 births, rank #11,231
2023: 10 births, rank #9,616
2024: 11 births, rank #8,946
20252025: 15 births, rank #7,133

Araminta moved from #842 to #858 for girls between 1880 and 1884. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 7.