Nena is a given name, nickname and sometimes a surname. It is an English and Spanish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonina and Giannina and thus an alternate form of Nina used in United States, most of Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Western Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Falkland Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Spain, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Guyana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Cameroon and Nigeria.[1] It is also an Afroasiatic feminine given name used throughout Africa and a South Slavic feminine short form of Nevenka and Nevena used in Slovenia as a given name and in other South Slavic countries as a nickname.[2][3] People bearing it include:

Given name

Nickname

  • Nena, stagename of Gabriele Susanne Kerner, (born 1960), German singer
  • Nena (footballer, born 1923) (1923–2010), nickname of Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer
  • Nena Baltazar, nickname of Tania Baltazar Lugones, Bolivian environmentalist
  • Nena Cardenas, born Remy Cardenas, Filipina actress
  • Nena Peragallo, nickname of Nilda Peragallo Montano, professor of nursing
  • Nena von Schlebrügge nickname of Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge, Mexican fashion model and mother of Uma Thurman

Surname

Fictional characters

See also

Name

  1. ↑ "Nena". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Nena". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Nena". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
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