Given name & surname
Yamini
“one who is right and proper”
Yamini is a variant of Yaminah. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is right and proper.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yamini is a variant of Yaminah. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is right and proper.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yamini is a variant of Yaminah. An origin associated with Yaminah is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yamini through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 56
- 0 boys · 56 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 850 as a first name in 2020; 276 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yamini’s family of names
Yamini has a related form in Yaminah. In English usage, Yamini has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form यामिनी.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.