Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yanina isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yanina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 384
- 0 boys · 384 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,559 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.
Yanina’s family of names
In English usage, Yanina has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Янина.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yanina
- Yanina WickmayerBelgian tennis playerborn 1989
- Yanina Karolchyk-PravalinskayaBelarusian shot putterborn 1976
- Yanina SokolovaUkrainian journalist, television presenter and social activistborn 1984
- Yanina StudilinaRussian actressborn 1985
- Yanina KuskovaUzbekistani cyclistborn 2001
- Yanina GonzálezParaguayan pageant titleholderborn 1979
- Yanina MartínezArgentinian sprinterborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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