Niňa

given name · Latin script

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

Niňa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Russian Ни́на (Nína), and from given names ending in -nina/-nine.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 197(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 302
  • DEGermany≈1 in 965

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Niňa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈790,000 named Нина, est.

#65 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
545 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 98 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NiňaLatin(measured from records)
НинаCyrillic(measured from records)
นัยนาThai(measured from records)
ՆինաArmenian(measured from records)
니나Hangul(measured from records)
ნინაGeorgian(measured from records)
ΝιναGreek(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nina in US United States, DE Germany, NO Norway and 2 more, Нина in RU Russia and Ніна in UA Ukraine.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Russian Ни́на (Nína), and from given names ending in -nina/-nine.

Sources 9

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The African book of names
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Niňa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Niňa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#32≈790,000 est.≈1 in 179#9Нина207
UA Ukraine#30≈480,000 est.≈1 in 92—Ніна81
ID Indonesia#164≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Nina182
US United States#48096,8751 in 3.4K97KNina545
DE Germany#197≈83,000 est.≈1 in 965—Nina278
MD Moldova—34,2081 in 9834K—34
NO Norway#4518,1341 in 30259KNina137
SI Slovenia#2110,6481 in 19711KNina78

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Hindi given name19 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Nina, Niña, Nīnā, Ņina, Ninä

  • a separate given name69 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Nina, Niña, Nînã, Nînâ, Ñina

5 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Niňa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Niňa mean, and where does it come from?
From Russian Ни́на (Nína), and from given names ending in -nina/-nine. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 7 other sources.
Is Niňa a male or female name?
Niňa 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.
In which country does Niňa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 792 thousand people named Нина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Niňa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niňa is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 98 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Niňa?
In the United States, the national register counted 96,875 people named Niňa in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Niňa compared with other names?
In Russia, Niňa is the 32nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Niňa” — the 32nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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