Sina (first name)

Sina is both a female and a male given name . In the late 1970s and early 1980s it was particularly popular in Germany after Nastassja Kinski appeared in the role of Sina Wolf in the much-acclaimed Tatort episode Reifezeugnis from 1977 .

Sina is a male given name in Persian.

Origin and meaning of the name

The name Sina was created as a short form of other names, which then became independent.

In Frisian it means: strength. In the Nordic: Victory and Young. In Hebrew: rose. In Arabic: beauty / beauty.

Sina is one of the first names that show a whole range of possible origins:

German or Italian origin: Short form of names that end in "-sina" or "-sine" (Gesina / Gesine, Rosina / Rosine, Josina, Klasina, Teresina, Ursina ( Ursula ), Thomasina).
Hebrew origin: first name meaning "shine, ornament".
English origin: Sina or Sinah can have originated as variants of the Gaelic form of Johanna (Sinéad, English Sheena).
Russian origin: Short form of the name "Sinaida" ( Russian ).
Persian origin: Male first name (emphasis on the second syllable), which reminds of Ibn Sina (Latin Avicenna ), one of the most important Persian doctors, physicists, philosophers and scientists of the Middle Ages.
Greek origin: Origin of Zeus (Greek god), daughter of god.
In Polynesian, Sina is the goddess of the palm fruit.

"Sina" is also the old name for China

Well-known namesake

Female

Sina (singer) (* 1966), Swiss dialect rock singer
Sina Candrian (* 1988), Swiss snowboarder
Sina Doughan (* 1987), spokeswoman for the Green Youth
Sina Ebell (* 1984), German actress
Sina Farzin (* 1976), German sociologist
Sina Bianca Hentschel (* 1987), German actress
Sina-Valeska Jung (* 1979), German actress
Sina Kostorz (* 1990), German volleyball player
Sina Mayer (* 1995), German athlete
Sina Peschke (* 1967), German radio presenter
Sina Ritter (* 1993), German handball player
Sina Schielke (* 1981), German athlete
Sina Tkotsch (* 1990), German actress
Sina Wilke (* 1985), German film, television and theater actress

male

Sina Ataeian Dena (* 1983), Iranian director, writer and film producer
Ibn Sina (approx. 980-1037), Latinized Avicenna, Persian physician, physicist, philosopher, lawyer, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and music theorist
John Cena (born 1977), American wrestler

Similar names

Sinan (male), Sinja (female), Rosina (female)

Individual evidence

↑ Duden - Lexicon of first names . 5th, completely revised edition by Rosa and Volker Kohlheim . Bibliographisches Institut / Brockhaus, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 / ISBN 3-411-04945-6
↑ Boris Paraschkewow: Words and names of the same origin and structure. Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York, NY 2004, ISBN 3-11-017469-3 and ISBN 3-11-017470-7 . P. 56 f.

[1] Duden - Lexicon of first names . 5th, completely revised edition by Rosa and Volker Kohlheim . Bibliographisches Institut / Brockhaus, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 / ISBN 3-411-04945-6

[2] Boris Paraschkewow: Words and names of the same origin and structure. Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York, NY 2004, ISBN 3-11-017469-3 and ISBN 3-11-017470-7 . P. 56 f.