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.
- 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)
- #296 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 188 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 named Инна, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belarus, est., as Инна
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #75 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | #58 | Инна | 194 |
| UA Ukraine | #49 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 227 | listed | Інна | 125 |
| BY Belarus | #44 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 188 | 1 | Инна | 45 |
| PL Poland | #971 | 22,557as Inna | 1 in 1.7K | 23K | Inna | 70 |
| ES Spain | — | 17,672as Aina | 1 in 2.8K | 18K | Inna | 50 |
| MD Moldova | #213 | 8,759as Ina | 1 in 384 | 8.8K | Inah | 25 |
| LV Latvia | #204 | 3,397as Inna | 1 in 554 | 3.4K | אינה | 41 |
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 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)
- Moritz Unnab. 1811DKDanish painter and photographer (1811-1871)
- Paul Gerson Unnab. 1850DEGerman physician and dermatologist (1850-1929)
- Joseph Unnab. 1877DEGerman writer
- Percy Unnab. 1878Unna, Percy John Henry (1878–1950), mountaineer and conservationist
- Marie Unnab. 1881DEGerman dermatologist (1881-1977)
- Moshe Unnab. 1902ILIsraeli politician
- Klaus Unnab. 1908DEGerman pharmacologist
- Issachar Unnab. 1934ILIsraeli physicist
- Unna Lehtipuub. 1968FIFinnish journalist
- Xu Jiaweib. 2009CNnot in their usual nameThe character designer of Huijun-chan
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)
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 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Unna?
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/unnaThe 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, “Unna” — the 75th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.