Yina

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Yina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: flip-flop, thong (footwear).

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 1.6K
  • NONorway1 in 1.6K
  • GEGeorgia1 in 2.2K

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

≈71K

across 14 countries

4

recorded for this name

Sources
319

294K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 384

Moldova

Spellings & scripts

InaLatin · English169K records
이나Hangul · Korean7.5K records
ᲘნაGeorgian · Georgian3.1K records
ԻնաArmenian · Armenian0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ina in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 14 more, 이나 in KR South Korea, Inah in BR Brazil and Ინა in GE Georgia.

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

flip-flop, thong (footwear)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

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

Where Yina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#28876,42271K rec.1Ina210
PL Poland22,554786 rec.1 in 1.7K23KIna4
CO Colombia#39814,7344.3K rec.10Yina81
KR South Korea#89714,2024.7K rec.177이나41
US United States11,841157K rec.1 in 28K12KIna319
GB United Kingdom9,0848.7K rec.listedIna91
MD Moldova8,75973 rec.1 in 3848.8KIna28
FI Finland6,861197 rec.1 in 8127.4KYina16
AT Austria#4784,150931 rec.942Ina85
AU Australia3,9853.9K rec.Ina111
LV Latvia3,39742 rec.1 in 5543.4K24
PE Peru3,3522.9K rec.Yina27

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

Languages

  • Spanish24K75%
  • English2.6K8%
  • Chinese8263%
  • Portuguese4791%
  • Indonesian2591%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish24,31175%
English2,5618%
Chinese8263%
Portuguese4791%
Indonesian2591%

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

Yina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3.6K records spelled Yina9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Nigeria, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yi-Na, Ýïňä, Yïnä

  • a separate given name379 records spelled Yina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China

    Also written Yi-Na

  • Lao given name213 records spelled Yina9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ยนะห์, ยนะห, ยูนะห์, Yinä, ยีนะห์

  • Polish given name136 records spelled Yina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Yinà

32 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

Yina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In puw, there, that's right, that's okay, fine

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Lingala, to dislike, to hate

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

  • In ktu, to detest

    as a wordkaikki.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

010203040196019802000202033 · 1975

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Yina in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1948–2023
Yearrecords
19481
19561
19573
19582
19594
19601
19613
19623
19637
19646
196510
196621
196711
196817
196924
197017
197122
197224
197315
197421
197533
197625
197727
197827
197919
198016
198114
198222
198320
198417
198515
19867
198718
19889
19896
199011
199113
19924
19937
19946
19958
19965
19974
19986
19991
20003
20011
20036
20043
20062
20076
20083
20091
20102
20112
20123
20134
20143
20152
20171
20191
20211
20231

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)63 years between 1948–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

198019902000Seo In-ah, b. 1984Seol In-ah, b. 1996Yina Liu, b. 1997
  • Seo In-ahb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Seol In-ahb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Yina Liub. 1997DEGerman volleyball player
  • Xiangkang YinAUnot in their usual nameeconomist (La Trobe University)
  • Minghao YinCNnot in their usual namecomputer science researcher at Northeast Normal University

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 30 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Yina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020639#17,267
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)598
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)140#5,345
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)140#12,038
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names52#3,209
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)34#14,825
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)197533
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)30#18,201
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)30#16,946
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)197827
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)197727
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)197625

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 199 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yina?
We estimate roughly 71 thousand people bear Yina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Yina have the most bearers?
Yina is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled ina.
Where is Yina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 384 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is Yina compared with other names?
In Germany, Yina is the 288th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Yina a male or female name?
Yina 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 Yina mean?
Recorded meaning: flip-flop, thong (footwear)
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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, “Yina” — the 288th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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