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Jina

Gender
Girl
Say it
JEE-nuh
Origin
Italian
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Jina is a girls' name of Italian origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

Where does Jina come from?

Italian: probably a spelling of Gina; also a Korean name and Swahili for 'name'

Is Jina a girl's or a boy's name?

Jina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jina in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,913th among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Jina, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1970, with 56 girls. It first appears in the records in 1948.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years.

Half of all the girls named Jina in the US since 1880 were born between 1969 and 1993, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 98 girls in the US were given Jina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,714, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

1948Busiest: 56 in 19702025
Jina in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20249#10,266
202310#9,611
202211#9,050
20215#15,246
20200–
201910#9,730
20186#13,788
20177#12,709
20169#10,855
201512#8,926
201413#8,480
201310#10,230
201211#9,706
201116#7,432
201014#8,267
200917#7,338
200816#7,738
200717#7,390
200623#5,708
200523#5,432
200417#6,763
200328#4,531
200221#5,440
200127#4,442
200024#4,786
199921#5,033
199821#4,951
199722#4,656
199623#4,448
199529#3,665
199419#5,011
199329#3,676
199228#3,767
199133#3,295
199035#3,151
198920#4,516
198838#2,739
198736#2,721
198644#2,299
198532#2,859
198451#1,990
198345#2,155
198234#2,704
198132#2,774
198051#2,043
197952#1,977
197846#2,050
197751#1,922
197647#1,912
197548#1,877
197445#1,913
197346#1,832
197240#1,989
197131#2,427
197056#1,653
196952#1,667
196835#2,024
196754#1,524
196650#1,586
196535#1,950
196449#1,635
196346#1,682
196236#1,916
196132#2,069
196027#2,245
195920#2,595
195827#2,166
195717#2,822
195617#2,825
195522#2,340
19549#3,965
19530–
19525#5,561
19516#4,832
19505#5,299
19490–
19487#4,203

Names like Jina

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Jina

Names related to Jina

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jina, updated 20 October 2026.