Yanina
Fewer than 2,000 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, and hardly any newborns get it now. At its Slavic root the name means "god is gracious".
Yanina Pronunciation
Yanina is pronounced ih-ah-NYEE-nah (/ɨaˈɲina/).
What Yanina means
Where Yanina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yanina is a Slavic name, the feminine counterpart of Jan. The short meaning attached to it, "god is gracious," łaska boża in Polish, comes from an old idea of grace given freely. Russian and Ukrainian speakers carry the name as their own, standing beside the Polish Janina, which is the same name in a different coat.
At home the full form rarely survives. On a class register she might be written down as Janina, while friends shorten her to Janka or Jasia.
Behind all of these stands Jan, the masculine name from which Yanina grew, and the reason both share that meaning of divine kindness. The name keeps its footing in daily Polish life. Call her Jasia, and the old sense of god's graciousness is still there in the root.
How many people are named Yanina
1 in 12694 women in Poland is named Yanina. 1,776 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #743 among female names.
Yanina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Yanina as a middle name
Yanina is a first name for 1,776 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1641st, between Walentina (20) and Yogesh (20).
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#1639 Tam20
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#1640 Walentina20
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#1641 Yanina20
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#1642 Yogesh20
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#1643 Yu20