Yanina

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Yanina is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name19K records spelled Yanina10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Yänïnä

• Thai given name1.9K records spelled Yanina79 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, United States, Peru

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Yanin, ญาณินท์, ญานิน, ญาณินทร์, ญาณิณ

40 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●

Yanina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Яні́на (Janína)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 73 years between 1931–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Yanina Yatsenkob. 1926UASoviet-Ukrainian dendrologist
• Yanina Welpb. 1974ARArgentine researcher
• Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskayab. 1976BYBelarusian shot putter
• Yanina Gaitánb. 1978ARArgentinian association football player
• Yanina Gonzálezb. 1979PYParaguayan pageant titleholder
• Yanina Zhurovskab. 1982UAvolleyball player
• Yanina Sokolovab. 1984UAUkrainian journalist, television presenter and social activist
• Yanina Studilinab. 1985RURussian actress
• Yanina Wickmayerb. 1989BEBelgian tennis player
• Yanina Kuskovab. 2001UZUzbekistani cyclist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 476 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yanina?

We estimate roughly 7.0 thousand people bear Yanina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Yanina have the most bearers?

Yanina is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled yanina.

How common is Yanina compared with other names?

In Argentina, Yanina is the 187th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Yanina a male or female name?

Yanina 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.