Lina

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Lina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short form used across languages, often from Carolina, Angelina, or names ending in -lina.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 26◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 30
  • GRGreece1 in 39

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

≈2.3M ●

across 13 countries

#6 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
583 ●

59M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Greece

Spellings & scripts●

ЕленаCyrillic · Russian●34M records
ElenaLatin · Spanish●6.6M records
ΕλενηGreek · Greek●827K records
ילנהHebrew · Hebrew●151K records
ᲔლენეGeorgian · Georgian●97K records
리나Hangul · Korean●4.4K records
เรณThai · Thai●3.5K records
ሄለንEthiopic · Amharic●632 records
ԱլենArmenian · Armenian●613 records
হেলেনBengali · Bangla●82 records

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Елена in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more, Helen in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 1 more and Helena in BR Brazil, PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

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●

Short form used across languages, often from Carolina, Angelina, or names ending in -lina.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Lina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#239,876,69313M rec.—#3Елена275
UA Ukraine#210,421,04210M rec.—listedОлена153
IN India#255,827,3001.8M rec.—481Renu203
AR Argentina#502,854,3531.8M rec.—134KElena150
MX Mexico#221,760,6491.4M rec.—7.2KElena227
GB United Kingdom#111,663,9521.6M rec.—38Alan288
PE Peru#32733,299628K rec.——Elena96
AU Australia#17692,457660K rec.—106Helen301
TR Türkiye#131634,80676K rec.—3.3KЕлена60
VE Venezuela#40573,195432K rec.——Elena101
PH Philippines#12507,290485K rec.—27KHelen144
FR France#28506,990746K rec.1 in 134507KHelene362

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

Languages●

  • Spanish562K27%
  • French409K20%
  • English224K11%
  • Portuguese194K9%
  • Lithuanian90K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish562,09127%
French409,12720%
English224,15611%
Portuguese194,2699%
Lithuanian90,0454%

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◐

Lina is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name94K records spelled Lina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Līna, Lîña, Liña

  • Indonesian given name93K records spelled Lina13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Lina, Lina', Li-Na, Lînä, Linà

  • Turkish given name55K records spelled Lina20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Syria, Russia

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh

    Also written Лина, Linâ, Linas, Linã, Lína

  • Hindi given name42K records spelled Lina17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Kenya, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written লিনা, Linaa, Li-Na, Līnā, Lïnã

  • a separate given name24K records spelled Lina9 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Li-Na, Li'Na, Līna, Lína, Līnā

  • Finnish given name11K records spelled Lina23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Italy

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Līna, Lîna, Lînã, Lïnä, Líná

  • Hungarian given name5.9K records spelled Lina12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, Italy

    Also written Lïnà, Lįnã, Lína, Ĺïña, Linâ

  • Kurdish given name5.5K records spelled Lina8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Syria, Afghanistan

    Languages: Kurdish, Persian, Pashto

    Also written Лина, Lïnâ, Līnā

73 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●

Lina 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 Spanish, possibly a nickname from Una ‘thread’, or a variant of li?tea ‘line’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • From a word denoting a type of palm tree.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, probably a short form of a female personal name ending with -Una, for example Carolina, Angelina.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A female given name, occasionally used in English.

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

  • In Spanish, Femenino de Lino o abreviación de Adelina, Carolina, Angelina, etc.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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●

0200400600190019502000534 · 2024

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Lina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188049
188139
188241
188338
188444
188543
188643
188750
188845
188952
189063
189150
189260
189351
189457
189561
189666
189753
189844
189952
190065
190155
190239
190346
190443
190544
190650
190780
190848
190957
191068
191161
191266
191376
191491
191599
1916101
1917115
1918104
1919102
1920111
1921122
1922109
192398
1924115
1925104
192690
192789
192875
1929101
193091
193174
193270
193373
193471
193570
193648
193777
193869
193964
194062
194162
194253
194367
194454
194553
194657
194773
1948100
194974
195065
195170
195259
195370
195452
195588
195679
195782
195888
195993
196078
196181
196263
1963113
196483
196599
196693
1967113
196887
196999
197097
197191
197294
197396
1974103
1975108
1976119
1977117
1978103
1979122
1980153
1981133
1982131
1983129
1984125
1985123
1986141
1987152
1988137
1989149
1990153
1991173
1992186
1993162
1994162
1995163
1996177
1997190
1998161
1999198
2000180
2001215
2002224
2003251
2004274
2005250
2006264
2007279
2008299
2009280
2010315
2011309
2012355
2013306
2014364
2015329
2016335
2017375
2018361
2019392
2020413
2021441
2022514
2023513
2024534
2025527

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Lina Radke, b. 1903Lina Heydrich, b. 1911Lina Bo Bardi, b. 1914Lina Kostenko, b. 1930Lina Canalejas, b. 1932Lina Medina, b. 1933Lina Sastri, b. 1950Lina Polito, b. 1954Lina Esco, b. 1985Lina Magull, b. 1994

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 144 sources across 77 countries.

Official registers attesting Lina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202473K#15
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202029K#1,283
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—25K#18
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—25K#18
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—22K#194
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202017K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—11K#373
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—10K#2,185
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20228.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—8.8K#1,858
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8.1K#631
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.7K#375

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,636 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lina?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Lina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Lina have the most bearers?
Lina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Lina compared with other names?
In Russia, Lina is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Lina a male or female name?
Lina 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 Lina mean?
Recorded meaning: Short form used across languages, often from Carolina, Angelina, or names ending in -lina.
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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, “Lina” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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