Comments for the name Araminta

ARAMINTA was the given name of Harriet Tubman.

Hebrew in origin meaning Lofty.

Common nickname is "Minty".

Araminta: an excellent name for a breath mint. Feel the minty air? Araminta!

I don't know exactly if she counts as a famous bearer, but in Harry Potter, a particularly unpleasant mother's cousin of Sirius Black was named Araminta Meliflua. She had attempted to get a Ministry Bill passed to make Muggle-hunting legal. Charming woman.

In Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Tom Sawyer's baby cousin is named Matilda Angelina Araminta Phelps.

Haha that is funny what Starla Roxanne said with the great name for a breath mint. I'd imagine that people with that name would get teased quite a bit since the word mint is in the name. I never knew this was a name until I met a baby named Araminta a few months ago. I like it though.

I think this name is rather a nice name - very rare and refreshing. :)

This name is mint! No pun intended!

Really?
Anyways, I don't think 'mint' being in the middle of the name is a big deal- it's not unpleasant sounding/brings up bad imagery for most people. I think this is usable.

'This name first appears in American records in the mid-1700s. It is probably an elaboration of the classical Greek name Amynta ("defender"), which was introduced during the Classical Revival period by works such as Edmund Spenser's "Colin Clouts comes home againe" (1595), Henry Purcell's song "Amintas to my grief I see" (1679), and John Dryden's poem "Go tell Amynta, gentle swain" (1680s). These English writers may have borrowed the name from the Italian pastoral play "Aminta" by Torquato Tasso (1573). Note that the original Greek name is masculine; Dryden seems to have been the first to use it as female name. Variations: Arminta, Aramitha, Armitha, Minta, Mintha, Minthy, Minty."

It's an English name, meaning lofty, was also Harriet Tubman's real name.

Araminta is my given name, I use Mindy for short. I was named after my Grandmother, she goes by Minty. I didn't use the name much as a child, I hated it, but as I've gotten older, I've learned to like it.

Araminta Star Matthews is an American writer.