Nina (name)
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| Nina | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Russian, Native American, Slavic, Spanish, Indian |
| Meaning | strong, flower, powerful, intelligent, friend, warrior, dreamer, kind, pretty |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Nena, Nino, Ņina |
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Look up Nina in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Nina is a feminine Russian name derived from original Georgian form Nino. Being a Christian name, it dates back to Saint Nino.
The name Nina may originate from the old Slavic word Ninati, meaning "dreamer" or "dream".
Other origins for the name Nina include - Native American, Spanish, English Croatian, and Indian. In Europe it is a short form of names such as Marina and Katharina.[1] Another meaning: mother in Swahili; flower in Old Greek, and fire in Quechua.
People with the given name
- Nina (singer) (born Ana Maria Agustí Flores), Spanish musical actress and singer
- Nina, Baroness van Pallandt, Danish singer and actress, also half of the Nina & Frederick duo
- Nina Agapova, Russian actress
- Nina Agdal, Danish model
- Nina Alisova, Russian actress
- Nina Ananiashvili, Georgian Ballerina
- Nina Andreyeva, Soviet Communist Party Official
- Nina Anisimova (sportswoman), Russian athlete
- Nina Anisimova (dancer), Russian dancer and choreographer
- Nina Antonia, British music critic
- Nina Arsenault, Canadian sex worker
- Nina Arvesen, American actress
- Nina Åström, Finnish singer
- Nina Auerbach, American professor
- Nina Axelrod, American actress
- Nina Baden-Semper, British actress
- Nina Badrić, Croatian singer
- Nina Bang, Danish Politician
- Nina Bari, Russian Mathematician
- Nina Barka (born Marie Smirsky), French-Ukrainian naïve artist
- 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 Björk, Swedish author
- Nina Blackwood, American Disk Jockey
- Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
- Nina Bonner, Australian field hockey goalkeeper
- Nina Bott, German actress
- Nina Bouraoui, French author
- Nina Bracewell-Smith, British royal
- Nina Brosh, Israeli model
- Nina Burleigh, American journalist
- Nina Byers, American physicist
- Nina Byron, American silent film actress
- Nina Campbell, interior designer
- Nina Carter, English singer
- Nina Cassian (pen name of Renèe Annie Cassian), Romanian poet
- Nina Clifford, American madam
- Nina Coltart, British psychoanalyst
- Nina Conti, British actress
- Nina Davies, Welsh cyclist
- Nina de Vries, Dutch sex worker
- Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
- Niña Dolino, Filipino actress
- Nina Doroh, Soviet sprint canoer
- Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, British noblewoman
- Nina Dumbadze, Soviet discus thrower
- Nina Easton, American journalist
- Nina Elias-Bamberger, American children television show producer
- Nina Etkin, American anthropologist and botanist
- Nina Fedoroff, American biologist
- Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress
- Nina Fyodorova, Soviet skier
- Nina Garcia, Colombian fashion journalist and critic
- Nina Gershon, American judge
- Nina Girado, Filipino singer
- Nina Gordon, American Rock Singer
- Nina Grewal, Canadian politician
- Nina Hagen (born Catharina Hagen), German singer
- Nina Hamnett, British artist
- Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman), American porn actress
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman, American novelist
- Nina Hoss, German actress
- Nina Hossain, British journalist
- Nina Hunt, British dance choreographer
- Nina Jacobson, American film executive
- Nina Katzir, wife of former Israeli President Ephraim Katzir
- Nina Kinert, Swedish singer
- Nina Koshetz, Ukrainian American opera singer
- Nina Kostroff Noble, American television producer
- Nina Kotova, Russian cellist
- Nina Kraft, German athlete
- Nina Kraviz, Russian DJ
- Nina Kumagaya, Japanese voice actor
- Nina Kuscsik, American long-distance runner
- Nina Lawson, Scottish wig maker
- Nina Lemesh, Ukrainian athlete
- Nina Li Chi, Chinese actress
- Nina Lobkovskaya, Russian sniper
- Nina Lobova, Soviet handball athlete
- Nina Lola Bachhuber, German contemporary artist
- Nina Makarova, Russian composer
- Nina Mercedez, American porn actress
- Nina Morgunova, Soviet middle distance runner
- Nina Nastasia, American singer-songwriter
- Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Nina Oulanova, Russian ice skater
- Nina Pekerman, Israeli triathlete
- Nina Radojčić, Serbian singer also known as simply Nina
- Nina Ricci, French-Italian fashion designer
- Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the person who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Nina Sevening (1885–1958), English stage actress
- Nina Siciliana, Italian poet
- Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon), American musician and civil rights activist
- Nina Sublatti (born Nina Sulaberidze), Georgian singer, songwriter, calligrapher and model
- Nina Totenberg, American journalist specializing in law
- Nína Tryggvadóttir, Icelandic artist
- Nina Vance, American entrepreneur
- Nina Vanna, British actress
- Nina Vislova, Russian badminton athlete
- Nina Wang, Chinese billionaire
- Nina Zhivanevskaya, Russian swimmer
- Nina Pacari, Ecuadorian indigenous leader
Fictional characters
- Nina, a character in the Disney Junior television series Imagination Movers
- Nina, a character in the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II
- Nina, a character from the book Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad
- Nina Ash, from the American television series Angel
- Nina Bibikova, from the novel The Man from Barbarossa
- Nina Brown, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- 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 Fortner, from Naoki Urasawa's anime Monster
- Nina Frost, from the book Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
- Nina Harper, a character 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 Myers, a terrorism analyst in the TV series 24
- Nina Martin, a character in House of Anubis
- Nina Pickering, werewolf from the TV series Being Human
- Nina Purpleton, female lead character in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
- Nina Sakura, from Ultra Maniac
- Nina Sayers, from the 2010 film Black Swan
- Nina Sharp, a character in TV series Fringe
- Nina Tucker, from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Nina Tucker, from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist
- Nina Van Horn, from the American sitcom Just Shoot Me!
- Nina van Rooyen, from the book Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
- 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 Windia, from the Breath of Fire series of games
- Nina Yamada, from Mamotte! Lollipop
- Nina Sinclair from the Vampire Academy spinoff series Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
- Nina Mikaelovna Schareshnaia from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
See also
- Nina (disambiguation)
- Nena (given name)
- Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, British royal known as Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon
- Lisa Moretti, an American professional wrestler formerly known as Nina
- Saint Nino (anglicized to Nina), an Eastern-orthodox saint
- Nina Never Knew, song
References
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