We named our daughter
Rina. In Hebrew, it means a joy that is both complete and spiritual. It has inaccurately been reported as meaning "joyful song" or simply "song" (which is actually "
Shira"), but one can see how "joyful song" might have crept in there.
This fairly idiomatic meaning was explained to me in this way: if you imagine a linear spectrum of good feelings from 'mere' joy ("simcha") to love ("ahava"), then "
Rina" is orthogonal to that spectrum, reaching upwards towards God.
As an aside,
Rina (I am told) also means "
Queen" in Hindu.
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