Entry № 8071 · Hebrew origin

Penina Penina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ peh-NEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Pearl (Hebrew biblical Peninnah - Elkanah's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "pearl (hebrew biblical peninnah - elkanah's wife)".

Penina is from the Hebrew Pənīnāh (פְּנִינָה — pearl, coral).

Pearl (Hebrew biblical Peninnah - Elkanah's wife) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

פְּנִינָה
Transliteration
Pənīnāh
Pronunciation
/ pɛˈniː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Penina stands.

Penina 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.

Peninas before her.

Real people
Pnina Tamano-Shata
First Ethiopian-Israeli woman in Israeli cabinet 2020-21.
born 1981
In fiction
Penina (Peninnah)
Hebrew biblical Elkanah's second wife.

Names connected to Penina.

The number behind Penina.

5

The Seeker

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