Entry № 4290 · Japanese origin

Hina Hina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Sun, day, doll"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "sun, day, doll".

Hina is a Japanese name with several possible kanji. 陽 means "sun" or "sunshine." 雛 means "young chick" or "doll" — specifically referring to the dolls displayed during Hinamatsuri, the March 3rd Girls' Day festival. 日 means "day" or "sun."

Hina has been one of the most popular girl's names in Japan in the 2010s and 2020s. The Hinamatsuri tradition gives the name a particularly feminine association — it is literally "the doll name."

Sun, day, doll — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

陽菜 · 雛
Transliteration
Hina
Pronunciation
/ ˈhiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hina stands.

Hina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hinas before her.

Real people
Hina Khan
Indian actress.
born 1987
In fiction

Names connected to Hina.

The number behind Hina.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hina reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.