Nina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/niːnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nina 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.
- 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 Nina 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)
- #65 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 545 (measured from records)
- 1 in 98 (inferred from the name graph)
≈790,000 named Нина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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)
Reduced form from Jeannine by dropping the first part and altering the ending.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nina is read(measured from records)
Nina is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nina in Ukrainian.
- German6.7%
a female given name, popular since the 1980s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.8%
hipocorístico de Giovannina y Annina; también ruso de Anna.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- French5.4%
Reduced form from Jeannine by dropping the first part and altering the ending.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #32 | ≈790,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | #9 | Нина | 207 |
| UA Ukraine | #30 | ≈480,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | — | Ніна | 81 |
| ID Indonesia | #164 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Nina | 182 |
| US United States | #480 | 96,875 | 1 in 3.4K | 97K | Nina | 545 |
| DE Germany | #197 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 965 | — | Nina | 278 |
| MD Moldova | — | 34,208 | 1 in 98 | 34K | — | 34 |
| NO Norway | #45 | 18,134 | 1 in 302 | 59K | Nina | 137 |
| SI Slovenia | #21 | 10,648 | 1 in 197 | 11K | Nina | 78 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nina is also recorded in 2 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
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nina Fochb. 1924USAmerican actress (1924–2008)
- Nina Hagenb. 1955DEGerman singer, songwriter, and actress
- Nina Hartleyb. 1959USAmerican pornographic film actress (born 1959)
- Nina Kunzendorfb. 1971DEGerman actress
- Stella McCartneyb. 1971GBnot in their usual nameBritish fashion designer (born 1971)
- Nina Badrićb. 1972HRCroatian singer
- Nina Ariandab. 1984USAmerican actress
- Brooklyn Leeb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Nina Kraljićb. 1992HRCroatian singer
- Nina Sublatib. 1995GEGeorgian singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 145 sources across 76 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 97K | #563 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 59K | #34 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 34K | #30 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 18K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 11K | #19 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 11K | #6 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 946 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 150 | #563 |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Nina?
- In the etymology graph, Jeanne, Tonya and Nena are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 792 thousand people named Нина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 98 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Where does the name Nina come from?
- Reduced form from Jeannine by dropping the first part and altering the ending. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- 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?
- In English, A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century.
- How common is the name Nina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 96,875 people named Nina in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Nina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nina is the 32nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Nina?
- A machine transcription gives /niːnə/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ninaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Nina” — the 32nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.