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- Niño is the Spanish word for boy or child. Niño or Nino is also a masculine nickname for various names.
- Nino is a masculine name in Mediterranean countries, e.g. Spain, Italy and Greece, as well as in nations where these countries have linguistic relations e.g. Latin-America.
- Nino is a popular feminine name in Georgia, popularized due to the 4th century A.D. conversion of Georgia to Christianity by a Roman woman, Saint Nino, a relative of St. George, who came from Constantinople. In Slavic languages the name is often written as Nina, a name which has multiple meanings,[1]
Nino in Georgia
- Nino Abesadze, Georgian-Jewish politician
- Nino Burjanadze, Georgian politician
- Nino Chavchavadze, Georgian princess
- Nino Chkuaseli, Georgian footballer
- Nino Gurieli, Georgian chess player
- Nino Katamadze, Georgian jazz singer
- Nino Khurtsidze, Georgian chess player
- Nino Machaidze, Georgian soprano
- Nino Pasikashvili, Georgian footballer
- Nino Salia, Georgian historian and philologist
- Nino Salukvadze, Georgian shooter
- Nino Sutidze (born 1992), Georgian footballer
Other notables
- Nino Bravo, Spanish singer
- Nino Escalera, a Puerto Rican baseball player
- Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer
- Nino Farina, Italian racing driver
- Nino Firetto, British radio presenter, TV host and actor
- Niño Muhlach, Filipino actor and former child actor
- Nino Rota, Italian composer
- Nino Schurter, Swiss cross-country cyclist
- Nino Ksipolitas, Greek singer
- Nino Vieira, former president of Guinea-Bissau
- Saint Nino
- Santo Niño, a Spanish title for the Christ Child, Jesus Christ as a child
- Nino Quincampoix, the romantic male lead character in the film Amélie (2001)
- Nino, or diminutively Nono, a pink-haired main character of Diebuster
- Nino, a character from Miraculous Ladybug
- Amir Rešić (1964–2007), known professionally as Nino, Bosnian and Serbian singer
- Nino (Greek singer) (born 1981), Swedish-born Greek singer
- Nino (footballer) (born 1980), Spanish footballer
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