Nina (name)

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Gender Female		Related names Nena, Nino, Ņina
Word/name Russian, Native American, Slavic, Spanish, Indian Meaning strong, flower, powerful, intelligent, friend, warrior, dreamer, kind, pretty

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. 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 Amir, Israeli Olympic sports sailor

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 Myskow, Scottish Journalist

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

Nina Thumbell, daughter of Thumbelina from Ever After High

References

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