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Nina - do you like it and how many do you know under the age of 30?

91 replies

CheetahChaplin · 04/09/2023 06:30

We love this name and know v few but I wonder whether others so. If you know them are they in England or is it more an international popularity?

any opinions on the name also welcome.

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bobby81 · 04/09/2023 07:53

I like it & I don't know any.

Daddylonglegs123 · 04/09/2023 08:05

I have only ever known one and she was a bit older than me but totally cool and quirky love the name.

Look up Nina Proudman a character in an Australian TV programme Offspring also very cool and loveable after the first couple of episodes when it starts to get going.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1530541/

Offspring (TV Series 2010–2017) ⭐ 8.3 | Comedy, Drama

1h | TV-MA

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1530541/

SunnieShine · 04/09/2023 08:19

I love it.

thdskdrggs · 04/09/2023 08:41

To me it's fit in with the Sarahs/Louises/Emmas/Rachels, due a comeback eventually, but you may be a bit early. But it's a perfectly inoffensive name.

Koalawhala · 04/09/2023 08:44

Lovely name. I know of only one at our DD’s school

Tinybrother · 04/09/2023 09:08

CurlewKate · 04/09/2023 06:51

@Tinybrother "don’t let the popularity of a name put you off though"

Are you saying that because you know 4 Ninas it's a popular name?

No I wasn’t, and that seems like a rather unnecessarily antagonistic response to a baby names thread first thing on a Monday morning. The OP used the word popularity, so I was giving my POV on people’s reluctance to use “popular” names if that is the OP’s concern. Maybe it isn’t her concern, I don’t know.

CoteDOpale · 04/09/2023 09:47

I knew 1, lost contact but I believe she’d be about 29 now.

samuelclemens · 04/09/2023 09:49

I knew one years ago whose full name was Georgina. It’s a lovely name in its own right though.

gravitytester · 04/09/2023 09:52

My cousin is Nina (Janina), it's a super common name/nickname in Germany. She's 20.

I know of 4/5 'Nina' girls through work (all under 10), and I know a Georgina how goes buy it.

FayCarew · 04/09/2023 10:20

I like it. I don't know any under 30

goldennavy · 04/09/2023 10:21

1 and love it

Ohmylovejune · 04/09/2023 10:22

I know a Christina known as Nina. Love it

Nochoiceleft · 04/09/2023 10:22

I’ve only known it as no abbreviation of Georgina.

CassiniG · 04/09/2023 10:24

It's a lovely, pretty name and so is the song Nina, pretty ballerina.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnz-qwt8hE4

oldnorsesaga · 04/09/2023 10:25

I only known Nikolina nn Nina. Quite common here, but I'm not English

wwyd2021medicine · 04/09/2023 10:45

I know none
It's a lovely name
It was in my top 3 for DD's

TJsAunt · 04/09/2023 11:36

Love it!

Would have chosen it for dd but she was born when ds was 2 and was obsessed with sirens (neenaws) so would have been too confusing.

Have only met one.

LadyBitsnBobs · 04/09/2023 11:38

My 13 yo daughter in England has never come across anyone called Nina (I just asked her). She’s at a massive all girls school. It’s a lovely name and not common

CurlewKate · 04/09/2023 11:39

@Tinybrother Sorry-wasn't meant to be antagonistic. I read your two statements as connected and was surprised. Again-apologies.

Tinybrother · 04/09/2023 12:19

Fair enough :)

TenderChicken · 04/09/2023 12:30

I don't know any Ninas of any age.

I think if it as being a Russian name, rightly or wrongly.

thinkingtoomuchagain · 04/09/2023 14:09

My niece is Nina and I love it! Just asked my sister and she said in Nina's 9 years she has met three other little ones, all non-English (French, Italian, Israeli.)

cheezncrackers · 04/09/2023 15:41

Yes, I like it. Easy to say, easy to spell, known but not common.

I know two - one is 16 and the other is 12.

NotFastButFurious · 04/09/2023 18:54

One pre-schooler and no older ones.

TheWayoftheLeaf · 04/09/2023 21:03

I like it and don't know any under 30