Nina (name)

Nina, Nína and Niná are feminine given names with various origins. Nina is a Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Swedish name used in Mexico, Canada, United States, Guyana, French Guiana, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Israel, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Scotland, Wales, England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Serbia, and North Macedonia, while Nína is an Icelandic name used in Iceland,[1] and Niná is a Sami name used in Northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland and the Murmansk Oblast.[2] These names serve as a short form of names ending in “-nina / -nine”, including Marina, Katharina, Antonina, Giannina, and Constantina. Nina its international variants also serve as a short form of Anna. Nina also has a relation to the Spanish word “Niña”, which translates as "little girl or great-granddaughter". Nina has meaning in several other languages: (Hebrew: God was gracious, God has shown favor); (Persian: nice); (Hindi: beautiful); (Swahili: mother); (Native American: strong or mighty); (Arabic: friend); (Greek: flower).[3][1][2]