Nina is of Russian origin with uncertain meaning. The name spread in many languages and is associated with many different meanings. For example, it stands for ‘gracious’, ‘favor’, ‘flower’, or ‘beautiful’.
Nina is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Nina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Nina ranks 290. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Nina. In the entire USA, approximately 117,458 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Nina. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Nina is of Russian origin with uncertain meaning. The name spread in many languages and is associated with many different meanings. For example, it stands for ‘gracious’, ‘favor’, ‘flower’, or ‘beautiful’.
The name is also.. associated with the Spanish word 'niña' meaning 'little girl'.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Nina annualy. This means that there have been girls named Nina who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Nina have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Nina even more than any other time: in 1887, it holds its present record of rank #112 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Nina has never been ranked higher than #112. In 2022, she rivaled the 283 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 1,023 girls named Nina were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Nina were born, there have been 1,051 newborns who received this name.
The name Nina may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Nina is apparently especially popular in West Virginia. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 763 women in West Virginia is called Nina. In total, that’s 1,933 women who feel addressed when the name Nina is shouted loudly across West Virginia and who ensure that their name makes it to #191 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Nina as the answer a total of 117,458 times. This places Nina at #287 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Nina as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Nina is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nina, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nina
Nina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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I
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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I
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nina sounds like this:
