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Jina

#11,358 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jina has been given to 2,020 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #11,358 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Jina, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jina: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jina means

Jina is a given name.

The naming story behind Jina

Wikidata records Jina as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q69508780, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,020 girls were recorded with the name Jina between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,529 in 1967.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,193 in 2015 to #11,358 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,358
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jina was born before 1979 — so the typical Jina is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,013
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (462).

Is Jina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−717
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,165
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1970 (56)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,529
1967

Spellings of Jina

Jina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 16.6% against Jina's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jina is used

Across 1910–2025, Jina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 199,916 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jina around the world

Where Jina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1970–2025
    #3,989
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #2,823
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2011–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,358
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,529
1967
Peak year
1970
56 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,020
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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