Araminta

Given name

• Araminta Ross, who later adopted the name Harriet Tubman
• Araminta Estelle Durfee, the birth name of screen actress Minta Durfee

  Use in fiction

• Araminta, character in William Congreve's comedy The Old Bachelor
• Araminta, character in Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy
• Matilda Angelina Araminta Phelps, the name given to Tom Sawyer's baby cousin in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Araminta, mother of Velvet Brown, the title heroine of Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet
• Araminta Meliflua, a minor character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series—a maternal cousin of Sirius Black who once crusaded for the legalization of Muggle hunting
• Araminta Spook, title character and protagonist of Angie Sage's Araminta Spook series of children's books, first released in 2008
• Araminta, one of the main characters in the Void Trilogy from Peter F. Hamilton
• Araminta "Minta" Herrick, 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 book it was based on
• Araminta Lee, a character from Kevin Kwan's book Crazy Rich Asians
• Harriet Araminta Lee, main character from Helen Oyeyemi's novel, Gingerbread; the daughter of Margot Lee and mother of Perdita Lee