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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.