Jina

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jina is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a Jaina Arhat; a son of Yadu (P); Jina (N);.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 763◐
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 896
  • RORomania1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈165K ●

across 9 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
515 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.3K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

GinaLatin · English●2M records
진아Hangul · Korean●56K records
גינהHebrew · Hebrew●4.1K records
ᲯინაGeorgian · Georgian●298 records
ጊናEthiopic · Amharic●5 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gina in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 19 more, 진아 in KR South Korea, גינה in IL Israel and ג'ינה in TN Tunisia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a Jaina Arhat; a son of Yadu (P); Jina (N);

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#60218,997209K rec.——Gina121
US United States#287146,8701.5M rec.1 in 2.3K147KGina515
GB United Kingdom#35480,87975K rec.——Gina181
KR South Korea#14870,44336K rec.——진아102
AU Australia#43740,01136K rec.—1Gina200
CA Canada#34137,01535K rec.—2Gina179
DE Germany#58924,60823K rec.—1Gina169
RO Romania#8622,295676 rec.—21KGina68
IT Italy#40017,69717K rec.—9Gina116
IN India—9,1556.9K rec.—224Gina63
FR France—6,065△47 rec.1 in 11K6.1K—8
VE Venezuela—5,899129 rec.——Gina6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English29K38%
  • Hindi18K23%
  • Spanish5.9K8%
  • 5.1K7%
  • Korean4K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English29,26238%
Hindi18,18023%
Spanish5,9418%
5,1177%
Korean3,9845%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name22K records spelled Jina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jīnā, Jiná

  • Indonesian given name6.5K records spelled Jina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jīna, Ĵina

  • a separate given name5.7K records spelled Jina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Jin-A, Ji-Na, Jína

  • Hindi given name1.6K records spelled Jina55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Sinhala

    Also written Jinu, Jeanne, Jean, Jin, Zina

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, Swahili: a name; also Buddhist title 'conqueror'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In pi, ‘Conqueror’; an honorific title of the Buddha.

    as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)

  • In English, An Afroasiatic language spoken in Cameroon.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • name, identity

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • victor.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030019201940196019802000224 · 1993

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Jina in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2015
Yearrecords
19171
19221
19233
19241
19253
19261
19272
19282
19292
19303
19314
19324
19332
19344
19354
19368
193711
19387
19399
19405
194112
19428
194311
194410
19454
19468
19479
194813
194910
195014
195115
195215
195318
19549
195520
195612
19578
195834
195928
196020
196133
196253
196324
196452
196551
196635
196753
196844
196937
197031
197162
197261
197346
197469
197555
197674
197771
197885
197966
198072
198194
1982106
1983124
1984128
1985124
1986112
1987136
1988138
1989150
1990141
1991143
1992184
1993224
1994196
1995155
199695
199794
199876
19994
200816
201016
20112
20126
20133
201413
201512

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 86 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Tae Jin Ah, b. 1953Song Ji-na, b. 1959Kim Jin-a, b. 1963Choi Ji-na, b. 1975Kang Jin-a, b. 1981Nana, b. 1991Won Jin-ah, b. 1991Lee Jin-ah, b. 1991Kwon Jin-ah, b. 1997Mahsa Amini, b. 2000
  • Tae Jin Ahb. 1953KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Song Ji-nab. 1959KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter
  • Kim Jin-ab. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Choi Ji-nab. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Kang Jin-ab. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter, born 1981
  • Nanab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer and actress, born 1991
  • Won Jin-ahb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Lee Jin-ahb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pianist, singer, and songwriter
  • Kwon Jin-ahb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and guitarist
  • Mahsa Aminib. 2000IRnot in their usual nameIranian woman who died in police custody

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Jina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.3K#5,203
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—252#694
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—123#19,494
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—120#7,520
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202098—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—82#39,734
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202276—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—76#49,949
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—68#36,656
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—66#10,043
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—45#9,736
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—26#46,971

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 416 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jina?
We estimate roughly 165 thousand people bear Jina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Jina have the most bearers?
Jina is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled gina.
How common is Jina compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Jina is the 60th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Jina a male or female name?
Jina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jina mean?
Recorded meaning: a Jaina Arhat; a son of Yadu (P); Jina (N);
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jina” — the 60th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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