Adina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Adina is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "delicate" or "gentle"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 5.6K
- USUnited States1 in 50K
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 Adina 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 644 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Адина in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)
Adina is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "delicate" or "gentle". In the Old Testament, Adina is a male warrior, one of King David's mighty men. In contemporary use, however, it is predominantly a female name, valued for its melodic sound and gentle meaning in Jewish communities and parts of Eastern Europe.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #620 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 644 | — | Adina | 59 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #279 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 908 | 23K | Адина | 42 |
| US United States | — | 6,597 | 1 in 50K | 6.6K | Adina | 338 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Adina | 34 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #201 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Адина | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,837 | 1 in 5.6K | 1.8K | Adina | 32 |
| MD Moldova | — | 533 | 1 in 6.3K | 533 | — | 4 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Adina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The Hebrew name Adina (עֲדִינָא) is derived from a root meaning "delicate," "slender," or "adorned". Some sources also connect it to a word for "luxury" or "delight". The name's meaning of delicacy stands in contrast to Adina's documented role as a military captain.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Annapiirna (N); Yamuna (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
a king (P); Siva (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Hebrew; slender, delicate; biblical
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Adina Begb. 1710PKGovernor of the Punjab
- Adina Mandlováb. 1910CZCzech actress (1910–1991)
- Adina Bastidasb. 1943VEVenezuelan politician
- Adina Văleanb. 1968RORomanian politician
- Adina Porterb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Adina Howardb. 1973USAmerican singer and songwriter (born 1973)
- Adina Pintilieb. 1980RORomanian film director
- Adina Vetterb. 1980DEGerman film actress
- Sarah Adina SmithUSAmerican film writer, director, and editor
- Adina Dulcufilm producer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.6K | #3,247 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,109 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 697 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 533 | #447 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 179 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #3,247 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #4,965 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Adina come from?
- Adina is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "delicate" or "gentle". In the Old Testament, Adina is a male warrior, one of King David's mighty men. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Adina a male or female name?
- Adina 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 Adina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Adina is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "delicate" or "gentle".
- In which country does Adina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Adina in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adina.
- What are other forms of the name Adina?
- In the etymology graph, 'Adina is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Adina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,597 people named Adina in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Adina compared with other names?
- In Romania, Adina is the 620th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adinaThe 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, “Adina” — the 620th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.