Adina

Adina comes from the Hebrew adin, meaning delicate, slender, refined — a quality of grace more than ornament. It appears briefly in the Hebrew Bible as a masculine name among David's warriors, and in modern Israeli usage has become thoroughly feminine. Three syllables, all soft, with no consonant sharper than a d. The name overlaps coincidentally with Romanian Adina (a diminutive of Adelina) and Nigerian Adina, which gives it unexpected cross-cultural warmth. Used quietly among Jewish families in North America and Europe, it has stayed outside trend cycles, which keeps it feeling unburdened. Adina is delicate in the best sense — supple, unforced, graceful.