Given name & surname
Taina
“seedling”
Taina is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Finnish.
Original RussianТатьяна
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Taina is a diminutive of Татьяна.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Taina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,757
- 0 boys · 2,757 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 248 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #6,089 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −3%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,089 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 3.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 248 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,865 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Taina’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Taina has a diminutive in TAIJA. In Finnish usage, Taina has a conventional equivalent in the English form Tatiana. In Portuguese usage, Taina has a related form in Tainá.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Taina has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Russianwhere Taina comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
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 Taina
- Taina ElgFinnish actress and singer1930–2025
- Taïna BariozOlympic Alpine skierborn 1988
- Taina ImpiöFinnish cross-country skierborn 1956
- Taina BofferdingLuxembourgish politicianborn 1982
- Taina OjaniemiFinnish athletics competitor and police officerborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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