Tina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Tena in ES Spain, MX Mexico, PE Peru, Тина in RU Russia, Тіна in UA Ukraine and טינה in IL Israel.

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●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Tina is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name406K records spelled Tina5 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Tiña, Tīna, Ṭīnā, Tīnā

• Spanish given name364K records spelled Tina64 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Tiña, Tinà, Ti-Na, Tiná, Tinä

• Hindi given name80K records spelled Tina12 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written টিনা, Tiña, Ṭīnā, Tïnà, ̄tiņa

• Indonesian given name38K records spelled Tina7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, India, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Tiña, 'Tina, Tina', Tiñà, Tìñà

• Czech given name12K records spelled Tina4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Tína, Tiná

• Finnish given name12K records spelled Tina9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Tïnâ, Tīna, Tïnä, Tînå, Tinà

82 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●

Tina 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.

• Shortened form of )\Christina and other girls’ names ending in -tina; now often used as an independent given name. Tirion ° Welsh: modern given name, from the vocabulary word meaning ‘kind’, ‘gentle’.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Swedish, Tina är ursprungligen en smekform till namn som → Albertina, → Christina. Kända namnbärare är den amerikanska artisten Tina Turner (1939–2023) och den svenska tv-kocken Tina Nordström (f. 1973). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 24 juli.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, ) Tine: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die auf »-tina/-tine« ausgehen, z. B. Christina (

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Short form of CHRISTINA and, less commonly, of other female names ending in - tina . This is a relatively common given name in the English-speaking world, and elsewhere. It was the most common of all female names bestowed in Denmark in the mid-1960s.

  as a word

• In fj, mother

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

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●

• Tina Turnerb. 1939CHAmerican-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)
• Tina Aumontb. 1946USFrench actress (1946–2006)
• Tina Smithb. 1958USUnited States Senator from Minnesota
• Tina Liffordb. 1966USAmerican actress
• Tina Arenab. 1967AUAustralian singer, songwriter and television personality
• Twinkle Khannab. 1974INnot in their usual nameIndian author, interior designer
• Tina Mazeb. 1983SISlovenian alpine skier
• Tina Karolb. 1985UAUkrainian singer, actress, television presenter
• Tina Majorinob. 1985USAmerican actress
• Tena Desaeb. 1987INnot in their usual nameIndian actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,236 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tina?

We estimate roughly 317 thousand people bear Tina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Tina have the most bearers?

We estimate about 253 thousand people bear Tina in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tina.

Where is Tina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tina is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 257 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Tina compared with other names?

In the United States, Tina is the 148th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Tina a male or female name?

Tina 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 Tina mean?

Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of Christina, Christine, and Clementina; now also used independently.