Araminta

Invented hybrid name from Arabella and Aminta

Araminta Origin and Meaning

The name Araminta is a girl's name of English origin.

Araminta is an enchanting eighteenth-century invention familiar in Britain and just beginning to be discovered here. It was used in 1693 by William Congreve in his comedy The Old Bachelor, and in 1705 by the versatile Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace as well as a playwright, for his comedy The Confederacy.

In the Enid Bagnold novel National Velvet, Araminta is the name of the central character's mother.

Araminta Rank in US Top 1000

# 858 in the US

Araminta Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 445 on Nameberry

Araminta Popularity

• 442 Nameberry 2024

20 Names Similar to Araminta

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• Amaryllis
• Corisande
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• Arcadia
• Anthea
• Andromeda
• Ariadne
• Amabel
• Cressida
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• Arianwen
• Ceridwen
• Eulalia
• Althea
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Famous People Named Araminta

• Araminta Harriet Ross birth name of Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist
• Araminta Star Matthews American writer
• Araminta de Clermont British photographer
• Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee American silent film actress
• Aramenta Dianthe Vail American painter
• Araminta Clementine Megan Spencer Churchill (b. 2007), daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough

Araminta in Pop Culture

• Araminta Spook series of chapter books by Angie Sage
• Araminta Melliflua character mentioned in Harry Potter
• Araminta "Minty" Cane time traveler who appears as a "ghost" to a boy in the 18th century in Helen Cresswell's children's novel "Moondial"
• Araminta Brown Velvet's mother, a former channel swimmer, in National Velvet (1935) by Enid Bagnold
• Araminta Dench character in play The Farmer's Wife (1916)
• Araminta Moneytrap wife to the rich usurer Moneytrap, very intimate with Clarissa Gripe, in Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (1705)
• Araminta character in William Congreve's 1793 comedy The Old Bachelor
• Araminta Lee character in the 'Crazy Rich Asians' trilogy by Kevin Kwan
• Aramantha title character in a 1649 pastoral by Richard Lovelace
• Matilda Angelina Araminta Phelps Tom Sawyer's baby cousin in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• "Araminta Station " novel by Jack Vance
• Araminta Holmes beekeeper