Inna (given name) explained

Inna
Gender:	female
Region:	Russia
Origin:	Europe

Inna (Инна) is a European given name. It was the name of an early East Orthodox male martyr (see), but is currently used as a feminine name only.^{[1] [2]} In ancient Greece, the name Ἴννα (Inna) is also attested^[3] (probably from ἴννην innen, meaning "little girl"^[4]), however a connection with the Russian Inna has not been confirmed.

People named Inna

• Inna (born Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, 1986), Romanian singer
• Inna Bulkina (1963–2021), Ukrainian literary critic, writer and editor
• Inna Braverman, Israeli entrepreneur and businesswoman
• Inna Brayer, amateur ballroom dancer
• Inna Churikova (born 1943), Soviet and Russian actress
• Inna Derusova (1970–2022), Ukrainian military medic
• Inna Dorofeieva (born 1965), Ukrainian ballerina
• Inna Gaponenko (born 1976), Ukrainian chess player
• Inna Gliznuta (born 1973), Moldovan Olympic high jumper
• Inna Lisnyanskaya, Armenian Orthodox and Jewish Russian poet from USSR, later Russia
• Inna Meiman-Kitrossky (1932–1987), refusenik
• Inna Modja (born 1984), Malian-French female singer and model
• Inna Mozhevitina (born 1985), Kazakh biathlete
• Inna Osypenko-Radomska (born 1982), Ukrainian/Azerbaijani sprint kayaker
• Inna Palacios (born 1994), Filipino football player
• Inna Poluškina (born 1984), Latvian long-distance runner
• Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian professor and politician
• Inna Tumanyan (1929-2005), Soviet-Armenian film director
• Inna Vernikov (born 1984), American politician
• Inna Yaitskaya (born 1979), Russian Olympic swimmer
• Inna Yoffe (born 1988), Israeli Olympic synchronized swimmer
• Inna Zhukova (born 1986), Belarusian Olympic rhythmic gymnast
• Inna Zubkovskaya (1923–2001), Soviet and Russian ballerina

See also

• Inna (disambiguation)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 20knames.com . 2016-07-01 . 2017-02-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170207113329/http://www.20knames.com/female_russian_names.htm . dead .
2. MN Weekly (Russia) Moscow News Weekly Retrieved on May 18, 2008
3. http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
4. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Di%29%2Fnnhn ἴννην