Adina

Hebrew
"slender, delicate"

Adina Origin and Meaning

The name Adina is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "slender, delicate".

Name of an Old Testament soldier that's been also used as a girls' name in modern Israel. An alternate spelling is Adinah. Some mistake Adina and Adinah to be the root of Dinah, but the Biblical name Dinah is borne by a different figure and has a different meaning. You can consider the modern short forms Dena and Dina as stemming from either Adina or Dinah.

# 837 in the US

Adina Rank in US Top 1000

# 1610 on Nameberry

Adina Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Adina Popularity

Famous People Named Adina

  • Adina BastidasVenezuelan economist (first female VP)
  • Adina Beggovernor of the Punjab
  • Adina BarOn, Israeli pioneer performance artist
  • Adina Emilia De Zavalateacher, historian & preservationist
  • Adina FohlinSwedish model
  • Adina Howardaward,winning American R&B singer & chef
  • Adina HoffmanAmerican essayist, critic/literary biographer
  • Adina IzarraVenezuelan musician & composer
  • Adina Mandlova (1910'91), Czech actress & sex,symbol
  • Adina PorterObie Award,winning American actress
  • Adina Ioana ValeanRomanian politician & social activist

Adina in Pop Culture

  • Adinacharacter in Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore (1832)
  • Adina"gentle" in Books of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible
  • Adina Mosque14th,century mosque in West Bengal, India