Pnina
Rare enough that most Poles have never met one: only about 46 women carry it, and the registry shows no newborns given it this century. Hebrew at root, from a word for "pearl".
Pnina Pronunciation
Pnina is pronounced PNYEE-nah (/ˈpɲina/).
What Pnina means
Where Pnina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pnina comes from Hebrew, where the word means pearl. The name appears in the Bible as Peninnah, one of the two wives of Elkanah in the first book of Samuel. She stands beside Hannah in that story. The name reaches back roughly three thousand years.
In modern Hebrew, pnina still means pearl in ordinary speech. The name and the object share one sound. A bearer named Pnina answers to the word for a small round treasure pulled from the sea.
Among Jewish families the name stayed in use as a girl's name, plain and clear. It has no diminutive that took hold, no cross-gender twin. Pnina stands on its own. On a Polish class register it would sit apart from the Annas and Katarzynas, marking a Hebrew root and a single meaning: pearl.
How many people are named Pnina
1 in 490083 women in Poland is named Pnina. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5647 among female names.
Pnina as a middle name
Pnina is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1432nd, between Petronella (25) and Rosana (25).
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#1430 Penelopa25
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#1431 Petronella25
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#1432 Pnina25
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#1433 Rosana25
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#1434 Selina25