Amin

At the 2020 census, 14,315 Americans bore the surname Amin — 2,462nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,900.

By the numbers

People: 14,315
Rank: 2,462nd
How common: 1 in 20,900
Per 100,000: 4.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Amin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 71.9%
White, not Hispanic 14.2%
Black, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Amin

Idi Amin (1925–2003)President of Uganda
Hafizullah Amin (1929–1979)Afghan communist revolutionary, politician and teacher
Samir Amin (1931–2018)Egyptian-French economist and political theorist
Qasim Amin (1863–1908)Egyptian writer, judge and social reformer
Ma'ruf Amin (born 1943)13th Vice President of Indonesia
Nurul Amin (1893–1974)Bengali lawyer, politician and Prime Minister and Vice-President of Pakistan
Bassem Amin (born 1988)Egyptian chess player
Ahmad Amin (1886–1954)Egyptian historian and writer

People named Amin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Amin

Amick

Also a first name

Amin has been given to 3,440 American babies as a first name since 1965, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.