Nina

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Ukrainian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Reduced form from Jeannine by dropping the first part and altering the ending.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 88◐
  • RURussia1 in 124
  • SISlovenia1 in 197

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈346K ●

across 16 countries

#143 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
484 ●

6.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 98 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

NinaLatin · English●916K records
НинаCyrillic · Russian●8.9M records
นัยนาThai · Thai●27K records
ᲜინაGeorgian · Georgian●22K records
ΝιναGreek · Greek●667 records
니나Hangul · Korean●360 records
ՆինաArmenian · Armenian●54 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Нина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, Ніна in UA Ukraine, Niina in FI Finland and นัยนา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Reduced form from Jeannine by dropping the first part and altering the ending.

Sources 1

  • Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#328,343,9221.5M rec.—#9Нина178
UA Ukraine#303,594,5873.6M rec.——Ніна76
DE Germany#195134,634120K rec.—1Nina266
US United States#48996,725800K rec.1 in 3.4K97KNina484
GB United Kingdom#42560,51049K rec.—4Nina214
AT Austria#6153,3657.2K rec.—14KNina163
PL Poland#19450,358△4K rec.1 in 76050KNina124
FR France#33849,36087K rec.1 in 1.4K49KNina327
TH Thailand#46945,42023K rec.—#287,151นัยนา104
ID Indonesia#17440,3827.5K rec.——Nina172
TR Türkiye—39,2272.9K rec.——Нина28
KG Kyrgyzstan#7135,3299.5K rec.——Нина15

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English916K26%
  • Ukrainian696K19%
  • French277K8%
  • German231K6%
  • Polish223K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English916,24326%
Ukrainian696,43519%
French276,8898%
German231,4316%
Polish223,4476%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nina is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name95K records spelled Nina13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Niña, Nįnă, Nïnâ, Niná, Nïnà

  • Hindi given name57K records spelled Nina19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Marathi

    Also written Niña, Nīnā, Niňa, Nįñã, Nïna

  • a separate given name46K records spelled Nina12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Russia

    Also written Niña, Ni-Na, Nìna, Ninā, Ņina

  • Romanian given name39K records spelled Nina33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Italy

    Also written Nină, Niña, Ňiņą, Ńiña, Nīňä

  • Hungarian given name24K records spelled Nina15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, Russia

    Also written Niña, Ńînâ, Ñina, Nîná, Ņina

  • Uzbek given name6.8K records spelled Nina40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz

    Also written Нина, Niña, Ņina, Ninằ, Nînä

94 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Russian name (originally a short form of names such as Antonina), now commonly also used in the English-speaking world. Variant: Nena.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In origin a short form of Antonina, but now usually used as an independent name. O

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, a female given name, popular since the 1980s

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, hipocorístico de Giovannina y Annina; también ruso de Anna.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900195020001.9K · 1980

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Nina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880119
1881123
1882171
1883177
1884187
1885193
1886238
1887266
1888304
1889315
1890314
1891273
1892340
1893330
1894347
1895348
1896320
1897336
1898383
1899390
1900376
1901295
1902369
1903345
1904348
1905354
1906340
1907433
1908449
1909434
1910478
1911466
1912582
1913668
1914828
19151,085
19161,130
19171,154
19181,165
19191,124
19201,226
19211,212
19221,131
19231,192
19241,212
19251,197
19261,111
19271,057
19281,023
1929968
1930996
1931997
1932974
1933976
19341,027
1935966
1936937
1937901
1938972
1939917
1940911
1941878
1942915
1943939
19441,007
1945882
19461,013
1947999
19481,022
1949943
19501,011
19511,035
19521,356
19531,377
19541,489
19551,351
19561,326
19571,320
19581,194
19591,339
19601,235
19611,242
19621,278
19631,273
19641,143
19651,059
19661,064
1967978
1968805
1969813
1970824
1971839
1972799
1973741
1974732
1975726
1976567
1977625
1978565
1979857
19801,889
19811,701
19821,427
19831,345
19841,342
19851,200
19861,073
19871,265
19881,227
19891,172
19901,102
19911,102
19921,051
19931,016
19941,062
1995989
19961,157
19971,284
19981,348
19991,437
20001,428
20011,306
20021,320
20031,356
20041,326
20051,287
20061,212
20071,270
20081,230
20091,149
20101,002
20111,051
20121,093
20131,116
20141,110
20151,080
20161,047
20171,020
20181,029
20191,006
2020944
20211,005
20221,025
2023920
2024960
2025946

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Nina Foch, b. 1924Nina Hagen, b. 1955Nina Hartley, b. 1959Nina Kunzendorf, b. 1971Stella McCartney, b. 1971Nina Badrić, b. 1972Nina Arianda, b. 1984Brooklyn Lee, b. 1989Nina Kraljić, b. 1992Nina Sublati, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 140 sources across 76 countries.

Official registers attesting Nina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202097K#563
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—59K#34
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—50K#99
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202650K#99
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202449K#32
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—34K#30
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—19K#251
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202518K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—17K#249
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—16K—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202414K#63
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202213K—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,968 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nina?
We estimate roughly 346 thousand people bear Nina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Nina have the most bearers?
Nina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled нина.
How common is Nina compared with other names?
In Russia, Nina is the 32nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Nina a male or female name?
Nina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nina mean?
Recorded meaning: Reduced form from Jeannine by dropping the first part and altering the ending.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nina” — the 32nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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