Entry № 9564 · Yiddish origin

Sheyna Sheyna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

A name that means "beautiful".

Sheyna (שיינע) is the Yiddish word for "beautiful," used as a feminine name.

Sheyna was common in Ashkenazi communities; the anglicized form Shana or Shaina has been used in the U.S. since the 1960s.

Beautiful. The Yiddish word, used directly.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Sheyna stands.

Sheyna 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.

Sheynas before her.

Real people
Sheyna Steiner
American journalist.
In fiction
Sheyna
Common in Yiddish fiction.

Names connected to Sheyna.

The number behind Sheyna.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheyna reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.