Ņina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Russian of Latvian speakers
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ņina 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 Ņina 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 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)
a female given name from Russian of Latvian speakers
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ņina 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)
Ņina 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ņina mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Russian of Latvian speakers Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ņina a male or female name?
- Ņina 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 are other forms of the name Ņina?
- In the etymology graph, Tonya, Nena and Tosia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ņina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 792 thousand people named Нина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ņina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ņina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 98 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ņina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 96,875 people named Ņina in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Ņina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ņina is the 32nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%86inaThe 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, “Ņina” — the 32nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.