Given name & surname
Faina
“one who is joyful”
Faina is used as a given name and a surname. One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “one who is joyful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “one who is joyful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Anglo-Saxon.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 0 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,661 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,661 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,496 as a first name in 2020; 109 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Faina’s family of names
Faina has a related form in Fana. Faina has a related form in Fayne. Faina has a related form in Faena.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Fanavariant
- Faynevariant
- Fainnalikely variant
- Faenevariant
- Fainevariant
- Faenavariant
- Faynavariant
- Fainiavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Faina
- Faina RanevskayaSoviet actress (1896-1984)
- Faina MelnikSoviet discus thrower1945–2016
- Chiang Fang-liangformer First Lady of Taiwan (1916-2004)
- Faina KirschenbaumIsraeli politicianborn 1955
- Faina KirillovaSoviet mathematician (1931–2024)
- Faina ShevchenkoRussian actor (1893-1971)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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