Entry № 9472 · Hebrew origin

Shaina Shaina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAY-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Beautiful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Yiddish)

A name that means "beautiful".

Shaina is from the Yiddish שיינע (Sheyne — beautiful) — from German schön (beautiful). Shaina is one of the Yiddish feminine names — central to traditional Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Yiddish feminine name reflecting Ashkenazi heritage.

Beautiful — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

שיינע
Transliteration
Sheyne
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃeɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shaina stands.

Shaina 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.

Shainas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shaina
Yiddish beautiful + Sheyne meidel + Ashkenazi Jewish naming heritage.

Names connected to Shaina.

The number behind Shaina.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shaina reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.