Unna

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Sarayii (N)

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

/ʊna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Unna is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 188as Инна(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 227as Інна
  • RURussia≈1 in 394as Инна

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 Unna 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)

≈360,000 named Инна, est.

#296 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
262 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 188 (inferred from the name graph)

Belarus, est., as Инна

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ИннаCyrillic(measured from records)
InnaLatin(measured from records)
אינהHebrew(measured from records)
อินนาThai(measured from records)
ԻննաArmenian(measured from records)
ΙνναGreek(measured from records)
ინნაGeorgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Инна in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Inna in PL Poland, ES Spain, Інна in UA Ukraine and Inah in MD Moldova.

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)

Sarayii (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Unna 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 Unna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#75≈360,000 est.≈1 in 394#58Инна194
UA Ukraine#49≈190,000 est.≈1 in 227listedІнна125
BY Belarus#44≈50,000 est.≈1 in 1881Инна45
PL Poland#97122,557as Inna1 in 1.7K23KInna70
ES Spain—17,672as Aina1 in 2.8K18KInna50
MD Moldova#2138,759as Ina1 in 3848.8KInah25
LV Latvia#2043,397as Inna1 in 5543.4Kאינה41

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)

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

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

  • Hindi given name15 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Urdu

    Also written Unni, ഉണ്ണി, Uṇṇi, Uñni, ఉనన

46 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Unna 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.

  • In German, from O.N. Unna in Westphalia

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, ON Westf. Una

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • Mujer

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Faroese, to grant, allow (someone else a benefit, without begrudging this)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, to allow oneself to have something (one deserves), to indulge

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

180018501900195020002050Moritz Unna, b. 1811Paul Gerson Unna, b. 1850Joseph Unna, b. 1877Percy Unna, b. 1878Marie Unna, b. 1881Moshe Unna, b. 1902Klaus Unna, b. 1908Issachar Unna, b. 1934Unna Lehtipuu, b. 1968Xu Jiawei, b. 2009

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Unna mean, and where does it come from?
Sarayii (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
How do you pronounce Unna?
A machine transcription gives /ʊna/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Unna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 360 thousand people named Инна in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Unna?
In Poland, the national register counted 22,557 people named Inna in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How common is Unna compared with other names?
In Russia, Unna is the 75th 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, “Unna” — the 75th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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