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, and Niná is a Sami name used in Northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland and the Murmansk Oblast. 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: ; ; ; ; ; ;.
Given name
- Nina Chanel Abney, American artist
- Nina Afanasyeva, Russian-Sami politician and language activist
- Nina Agapova, Russian actress
- Nina Agdal, Danish model
- Nina Alisova, Russian actress
- Nina Allan, British writer
- Nina E. Allender, American cartoonist and activist
- Nina Alovert, Russian photographer
- Nina Amir, Israeli sports sailor
- Nina Ananiashvili, Georgian ballerina
- Nina Nymark Andersen, Norwegian footballer
- Nina Andreyeva, Soviet Communist Party official
- Nina Anisimova , Russian dancer and choreographer
- Nina Anisimova , Russian athlete
- Nina Ansaroff, American mixed martial artist
- Nina Antonia, British author
- Nina Arianda, American actress
- Nina Arsenault, Canadian performance artist and freelance writer
- Nina Arvesen, American actress
- Nina Åström, Finnish singer
- Nina Auerbach, American professor
- Nina Averina, Russian journalist, local historian and poet
- Nina Axelrod, American actress
- Nina Baden-Semper, British actress
- Nina Badrić, Croatian singer
- Nina Bang, Danish politician
- Nina Bari, Russian mathematician
- Nina Barr Wheeler, American artist
- Nina Bates, Bosnian figure skater
- Nina Bawden, British author
- Nina Bendigkeit, German singer
- Nina Berberova, Russian author
- Nina Berman, American photographer
- Nina Betschart, Swiss volleyball player
- Nina Bjedov, Serbian basketball player
- Nina Björk, Swedish author
- Nina Blackwood, American disc jockey
- Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
- Nina Bohm, Swedish tennis player
- Nina Yang Bongiovi, American film producer
- Nina Bonner, Australian field hockey player
- Nina Bott, German actress
- Nina Bracewell-Smith, British thoracic aristocrat
- Nina Bratchikova, Russian tennis player
- Nina Starr Braunwald, American surgeon
- Nina Brosh, Israeli model
- Nina Burger, Austrian footballer
- Nina Burleigh, American journalist
- Nina Buysman, Dutch cyclist
- Nina Byers, American physicist
- Nina Byron, American silent film actress
- Nina Carberry, Irish jockey
- Nina Cheremisina, Russian former rower
- Nina Clifford, Canadian known as a madam in United States
- Nina Companeez, French screenwriter and film director
- Nina Conti, British actress
- Nina Coltart, British psychoanalyst
- Nina Coolman, Belgian volleyball player
- Nina Crone, Australian gardening writer, broadcaster, teacher and school principal
- Nina Curtis, Australian sailor
- Nina Daniels, New Zealand synchronised swimmer
- Nina Davies , Welsh cyclist
- Nina Davuluri, American public speaker and Miss America 2014
- Nina Derwael, Belgian gymnast
- Nina de Vries, Dutch sex worker
- Nina Dittrich, Austrian swimmer
- Nina Doroh, Soviet sprint canoer
- Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, British noblewoman
- Nina Dübbers, German tennis player
- Nina Dumbadze, Soviet discus thrower
- Nina Đurđević, Slovene model and Miss Universe Slovenia 2013
- Nina Easton, American journalist
- Nina Elias-Bamberger, American television producer
- Nina Etkin, American anthropologist and botanist
- Nina Fedoroff, American molecular biologist
- Nina Foch, Dutch actress raised in the United States
- Nina Frolova, Soviet rowing cox
- Nina Fyodorova, Soviet skier
- Nina Gäßler, German mountain biker and rower
- Nina Garsoïan, American historian
- Nina Gavrylyuk, Russian cross-country skier
- Nina Genke-Meller, Russian artist
- Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia, Russian Princess
- Nina Gerhard, German Eurodance singer
- Nina Gershon, American judge
- Nina Girado, Filipina singer
- Nina Godiwalla, American author and businesswoman
- Nina Gold, British casting director
- Nina Gopova, Soviet canoer
- Nina Gordon, American rock singer
- Nina Grebeshkova, Russian actress
- Nina Grewal, Canadian politician
- Nina Grieg, née Hagerup, Norwegian lyric soprano
- Nina Gruzintseva, Soviet canoer
- Nina Hagen, German singer
- Nina Hamnett, British artist
- Nina Harmer, American swimmer
- Nina Hasselmann, German field hockey player
- Nina Haver-Løseth, Norwegian alpine skier
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman, American novelist
- Nina Holmén, Finnish long-distance athlete
- Nina Hoss, German actress
- Nina Hossain, British journalist
- Nina Humphreys, British composer
- Nina Hunt, Manx choreographer
- Nina Ivanišin, Slovenian actress
- Nina Jablonski, American anthropologist and palaeobiologist
- Nina Jacobson, American film executive
- Nina Moore Jamieson, Canadian writer
- Nina Jeriček, Slovenian handballer
- Nina Johnsen, Norwegian cyclist
- Nina Kamenik, German ice hockey player
- Nina Kasniunas, American political scientist and writer
- Nina Katchadourian, American artist
- Nina Kemppel, American cross-country skier
- Nina Kessler, Dutch cyclist
- Nina Khadzhiyankova, Bulgarian basketball player
- Nina Kinert, Swedish musician
- Nina Klenovska, Bulgarian biathlete
- Nina Kolarič, Yugoslavian athlete
- Nina Kolundžić, Serbian handball player
- Nina Koshetz, Ukrainian opera singer
- Nina Kostroff Noble, American television producer
- Nina Kotova, Russian cellist
- Nina Kpaho, Ivorian footballer
- Nina Kraft, German triathlete
- Nina Kraljić, Croatian singer-songwriter
- Nina Kraus, American neuroscientist
- Nina Kraviz, Russian DJ
- Nina Kulagina, Russian psychokineticist
- Nina Kuscsik, American long-distance athlete
- Nina Lagergren, Swedish businesswoman and half-sister of Raoul Wallenberg
- Nina Lawson, Scottish wig maker
- Nina Frances Layard, English poet, prehistorian, archaeologist and antiquary
- Nina Lemesh, Ukrainian biathlete
- Nina Li Chi, Hong Kong actress
- Nina Ligon, Thai equestrian
- Nina Lobkovskaya, Russian sniper
- Nina Lobova, Soviet handball athlete
- Nina Lola Bachhuber, German artist
- Nina Lussi, American ski jumper
- Nina Makarova, Russian composer
- Nina Manucharyan, Armenian film actress
- Nina Marković, Croatian physicist and professor
- Nina Matsumoto is a Japanese-Canadian cartoonist
- Nina Matviyenko, a Ukrainian singer
- Nina McClelland, American chemist
- Nina Mae McKinney, American actress
- Nina Menkes, American filmmaker
- Nina Meurisse, French actress
- Nina Miranda, Brazilian singer
- Nina Morić, Croatian fashion model
- Nina Morgunova, Soviet middle-distance athlete
- Nina Morozova, Russian sprint hurdle athlete
- Nina Morrison, Australian Australian rules footballer
- Nina Mozer, Russian ice-skating coach
- Nina Müller, German handball player
- Nina Muradyan, Armenian volleyball player
- Nina Myskow, Scottish journalist
- Nina Nadira, Malaysian singer and actress
- Nina Nannar, British Asian journalist
- Nina Nastasia, American singer-songwriter
- Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer and songwriter
- Nina Kamto Njitam, Cameroonian handball player
- Nina Olivette, American actress and dancer
- Nina Otkalenko, Soviet middle-distance athlete
- Nina Paley, American cartoonist and animator
- Nina Paw, Hong Kong actress
- Nina Pekerman, Israeli triathlete
- Nina Persson, Swedish singer
- Nina Petković, Montenegrin celebrity
- Nina Petrova, Russian sniper
- Nina Petushkova, Russian figure skater
- Nina Ponomaryova, Russian discus athlete
- Nina Potočnik, Slovenian tennis player
- Nina Power, British cultural critic, philosopher and translator
- Nina Preobrazhenskaya, Soviet rower
- Nina Proll, Austrian actress
- Nina Proskura, Ukrainian rower
- Nina Wilcox Putnam, American writer
- Nina Quartero, American actress
- Nina Raine, English theatre director and playwright
- Nina Rangelova, Bulgarian swimmer
- Nina Raspopova, Russian pilot
- Nina Reithmayer, Austrian luger
- Nina Repeta, American actress
- Nina Revoyr, American novelist
- Nina Ricci, French-Italian fashion designer
- Nina Rillstone, New Zealand long-distance athlete
- Nina Robertson, Australian beauty queen
- Nina Rocheva, Soviet cross-country skier
- Nina Rønsted, Danish botanist
- Nina Rosenwald, American political activist and philanthropist
- Nina Rosić, Serbian volleyball player
- Nina Roth, American curler
- Nina Ruslanova, Soviet and Russian actress
- Nina Saeedyokota, Japanese gymnast
- Nina Sandberg, Norwegian politician
- Nina Seničar, Serbian actress and model
- Nina Sevening, English stage actress
- Nina Shatskaya, Russian singer and actress
- Nina Siciliana, Italian poet
- Nina Simonovich-Efimova, Russian artist and puppeteers
- Nina Smoleyeva, Russian volleyball player
- Nina Snaith, British mathematician
- Nina Søby, Norwegian cyclist
- Nina Solheim, Norwegian taekwondo
- Nina Sosanya, English actress
- Nina Sosnina, Ukrainian resistance fighter
- Nina Statkevich, Russian speed skater
- Nina Stemme, Swedish singer
- Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player
- Nina Auchincloss Straight, American author and journalist
- Nina Tangri, Canadian politician
- Nina Tassler, American television executive
- Nina Taylor, Australian politician
- Nina Teicholz, American journalist
- Nina Temple, British politician
- Nina Tikkinen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Nina Totenberg, American journalist
- Nina Toussaint-White, English actress
- Nina Turner,, American politician
- Nina Ulanova, Russian ice skater
- Nina Ulyanenko, Russian navigator and pilot
- Nina Umanets, Ukrainian rower
- Nina Usatova, Russian actress
- Nina van Pallandt, Danish singer and actress
- Nina Vance, American entrepreneur
- Nina Vanna, stage name of Nina Yazykova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, Belarussian actress
- Nina Veselova, Russian painter
- Nina Violić, Croatian actress
- Nina Vislova, Russian badminton player
- Nina Wadia, British actress
- Nina Wang,, Chinese billionaire
- Nina Wayne, American actress
- Nina Weckström, Finnish badminton player
- Nina Woodford, Swedish songwriter
- Nina Young, Australian actress
- Nina Žabjek, Slovenian handball player
- Nina Zagat, of Tim and Nina Zagat, American entrepreneur and publisher
- Nina Zander, German tennis player
- Nina Zhivanevskaya, Russian swimmer
- Nina Zhuk, Russian pair skater
- Nina Zulić, Slovenian handball player
- Nina Zyuskova, Soviet middle-distance athlete
Nickname
- Mizz Nina, professional name of Shazrina binti Azman, Malaysian fashion designer
- Nina , professional name of Anna Maria Agustí Flores,Spanish actress and singer
- Nina, former ring name of Lisa Mary Moretti, who has also been known as Ivory, Tina Ferrari and Tina Moretti, American professional wrestler
- Nina Barka, French-Ukrainian artist
- Nina Bo'nina Brown, stage name of Pierre Leverne Dease, American drag performer
- Nina Bonaparte, pen name of Éléonore-Justine Ruflin, French writer and wife of Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte
- Nina Bouraoui, nickname of Yasmina Bouraoui, French author
- Nina Boyle, nickname of Constance Antonina Boyle, British journalist
- Nina Campbell, nickname of Henrietta Sylvia Campbell, English interior designer
- Nina Carter,, English model and singer
- Nina Cassian, pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru, Romanian poet, translator, journalist and composer
- Nina M. Davies, published under the co-pen name N. de Garis Davies, Scottish egyptologist
- Nina Dobrev, professional name of Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva, Bulgarian actress raised in Canada
- Nina Fedorova, pen name of Antonina Riasanovsky,, Russian author
- Nina Flowers, stage name of Jorge Luis Flores Sanchez, Puerto Rican drag queen and celebrity
- Nina García, nickname of Ninotchka García, Colombian fashion journalist and critic
- Nina Hagen, nickname of Catharina Hagen, German singer
- Nina Hartley, stage name of Marie Louise Hartman, American pornographic actress
- Nina Las Vegas, stage name of Nina Elizabeth Agzarian, Australian radio host, DJ and music producer
- Nina Liedtke, nickname of Antonina Liedtke, Polish writer and editor
- Nina Morato, French singer-songwriter
- Nina Radojičić, nickname of Danica Prodanović, Serbian singer
- Nina Pacari, Kichwa/Ecuadorian indigenous leader
- Nina Pillard, nickname of Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard, American Judge
- Nina Ramirez, nickname of Janina Sara Maria Ramirez, British historian and TV presenter
- Nina Rasul, nickname of Santanina Tillah Rasul, Filipina politician
- Nina Ricci , Italian fashion designer
- Nina Salaman, nickname of Paulina Ruth Salaman, British poet and translator
- Nina Sicilia, nickname of Alejandrina Sicilia Hernández, Venezuelan model and Miss International 1985
- Nina Siemaszko, nickname of Antonina Jadwiga Siemaszko, American actress
- Nina Simone, professional name of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist
- Nina Sublatti, Georgian singer, songwriter, calligrapher and model
- Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, nickname of Elisabeth Magdalena Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler
- Nína Tryggvadóttir, nickname of Jónína Tryggvadóttir, Icelandic artist
- Nina Tayeb, nickname of Ninet Tayeb, Israeli entertainer
- Nina West, stage name of Andrew Levitt, American drag queen, actor and singer
- Nina Zilli, stage name of Maria Chiara Fraschetta, Italian singer-songwriter.
Fictional characters
- Nina, from Nina Needs to Go!
- Nina, the title character of Nina's World
- Nina, a character in the Disney Junior television series Imagination Movers
- Nina, a character from the book Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad
- Nina Ash, from the American television series Angel
- Nina Azarova, from the American webseries, ‘’The OA’’
- Nina Bailey, from Home and Away
- Nina Brown, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Nina Caliente, from the life simulation video games The Sims 2, The Sims 3 and The Sims 4.
- Nina Callas, from The Clique series of books
- Nina Campbell, from the American sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Nina Cassady, from the American drama Law & Order
- Nina Cortex, from the Crash Bandicoot series of games
- Nina Cortlandt, from the soap opera All My Children
- Nina Einstein, from the anime Code Geass
- Nina Flores, from Clifford's Puppy Days
- Nina Fortner, from Naoki Urasawa's anime Monster
- Nina Frost, from the book Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
- Nina Gilbert, from Home and Away
- Nina Harper, from the animated series Braceface
- Nina Harris, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Nina Jarvis, from the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400
- Nina Lucas, from Coronation Street
- Nina Mandal, from Coronation Street
- Nina Martin, a character from House of Anubis
- Nina Mauricius–Sanders, a character from Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden
- Nina Myers, a terrorism analyst in the TV series 24
- Nina Natsume, from the Urara Meirocho
- Nina Neckerly, a giraffe from Camp Lazlo
- Nina Olivera, from Home and Away
- Nina Pickering, werewolf from the TV series Being Human
- Nina Price, also known as Vampire by Night, a Marvel Comics character
- Nina Purpleton, female lead character in
- Nina Reeves, from General Hospital
- Nina Rosario, A resident in the Barrio from Broadway Play In The Heights, created in 2008 by writer Lin Manuel Miranda.
- Nina Sakura, from Ultra Maniac
- Nina Sayers, from the 2010 film Black Swan
- Nina Mikaelovna Schareshnaia from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
- Nina Sharp, from Fringe
- Nina Thumbell, the daughter of Thumbelina from the Mattel franchise Ever After High
- Nina Tucker, from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Nina Tucker, from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist
- Nina Van Horn, from American TV show, Just Shoot Me!
- Nina van Rooyen, from the book Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
- Nina Vorhees, nickname of Nitia Vorhees, from The Passage
- Nina Walsh, from Smart_Guy
- Nina Wáng, from the anime Mai Otome
- Nina Webster, from the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Nina Williams, a fictional assassin from the Tekken series of games
- Nina Williams, alternate name of Nene Williams, from Neighbours
- Nina Windia, from the Breath of Fire series of games
- Nina Yamada, from Mamotte! Lollipop
- Nina Sergeevna Krilova, former KGB officer in The Americans
- Nina Zenik, a character in the six of crows duology
- Nina Salazar-Roberts, a main character in the Disney+ TV series, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
- Nina from You Were Never Really Here, film by Lynne Ramsay
Surname
- Joe Nina, stage name of Makhosini Henry Xaba,, South African singer
- Julián Apasa Nina, birthname of Túpac Katari, Bolivian rebel
- Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier
- Lorenzo Nina, Italian prelate
- Song Nina, Chinese volleyball player
- Ur-Nina, Iraqi king