Araminta

Araminta is a feminine given name linked to the plant Amaranth.

People with the given name

 * Araminta Ross (1822–1913), African-American abolitionist who adopted the name Harriet Tubman
 * Araminta Estelle Durfee, the birth name of American screen actress Minta Durfee (1889–1975)

Use in fiction

 * Araminta Lee, character in Kevin Kwan's novel Crazy Rich Asians (2013) and film based on the novel
 * Araminta, character in William Congreve's comedy The Old Bachelor (1693)
 * Araminta, character in Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (1705)
 * Matilda Angelina Araminta Phelps, the name given to Tom Sawyer's baby cousin in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
 * Araminta, mother of Velvet Brown, the title heroine of Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet (1935)
 * Araminta Meliflua, a minor character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
 * Araminta Spook, title character and protagonist of Angie Sage's Araminta Spook/ie series of children's books, first released in 2008
 * Araminta, one of the main characters in the Void Trilogy from Peter F. Hamilton
 * Araminta Gunningworth, previously Reilling, (née Wincheslea) Countess of Penwood, the main antagonist of the Regency romance novel "An Offer From a Gentleman", the third entry in the Bridgerton series series by Julia Quinn'''
 * Araminta "Minta" Herrick (née Cardew), one of the main characters in Victoria Holt's The Shadow of the Lynx
 * Araminta Station, a science fiction novel by Jack Vance; first book of the "Cadwal Chronicles"
 * Araminta 'Minty' Cane, character from the TV series Moondial and the Helen Cresswell book it was based on
 * Harriet Araminta Lee, main character from Helen Oyeyemi's novel, Gingerbread
 * A similar name was used by poet Richard Lovelace for the title heroine of "Aramantha: A Pastorall" (1649)
 * John Dryden used a variant of the masculine Greek name Amyntas for a female character in "Go tell Amynta, gentle swain" (1680s)