Anina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əninə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 532K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Anina | 24 |
| DE Germany | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 1 | Anina | 83 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Anina | 55 |
| US United States | 625 | 1 in 532K | 623 | Anina | 182 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 763K | — | Anina | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 117 | 1 in 50K | 117 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 92 | 1 in 61K | 138 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 52 | 1 in 40K | 53 | — | 1 |
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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Anina 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 Romanian, to hook; to hang (up)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ANINÁ, anín, vb. I. 1. Tranz. (Pop.) A agăța (1). 2. Refl. Fig. (Rar) A se lega de cineva, a nu-i da pace; a căuta pricină (cuiva).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, pilsēta Rumānijā, Karašas-Severinas žudecā, 7500 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anina Bennettb. 1965USAmerican comics writer
- Anina Burgerb. 1967ZAcricketer
- Anina Abt-Steinb. 1988DEGerman actress
- Anina Ciuciub. 1990ROFrench writer and lawyer
- Anina Gertschb. 1994CHSwiss association football player
- Anina Sangeb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Anina Silkb. 1996HUHungarian pornographic actress
- Anina Dienerb. 2000DEGerman costume designer
- Anina Pinterb. 2000HUCostume Designer
- Anina Haßlerb. 2004DEGerman association football player
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 47 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 623 | #17,567 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 138 | #2,306 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 117 | #1,425 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 92 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 53 | #2,108 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 53 | #1,027 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 52 | #1,051 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 52 | #1,026 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 51 | #997 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 51 | #992 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 49 | #1,006 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 48 | #997 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Anina?
- A machine transcription gives /əninə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Anina a male or female name?
- Anina 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 Anina?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Anina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Anina in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anina.
- How common is the name Anina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 625 people named Anina in 2020, about 1 in 532 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Anina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aninaThe 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, “Anina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.