Shayna (Yiddish: שיינע; Polish: Szejna) is a feminine name of Yiddish origin, meaning "beautiful" or "lovely", and evocative of the Yiddish phrase "אַ שיינע מיידל" ("a shayne maydel", or "a lovely girl"). Its Hebrew equivalent is Yaffa (יפה) or Yafit (יַפִית); during the years following the Holocaust, the name Shayna (and its Arabic cognate, Jamila) was often Hebraicized to Yaffa upon immigrating to Israel or, outside Israel, as a post-Holocaust distancing of diasporic heritage. People named Shaina or Shayna Shaina Magdayao, (born 1989) Filipina actress, dancer, singer and model Shaina Sandoval, (born 1992) American actress Shayna Baszler, martial artist Shayna Fox (born 1984), American voice actress Shayna Hubers (born 1991), perpetrator of the murder of Ryan Poston Shayna Levine, actress Shayna Nackoney (born 1982), synchronized swimmer Shayna Richardson (born 1984), Missouri skydiver who survived a fall Shayna Rose (born 1983), soap opera actress Shayne-Feygl Szapiro (Szejne Fejgl Szapiro-Michalewicz, Dina Blond, 1887-1985), member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator References Feminine given names Yiddish words and phrases