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Rina

#2,319 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Rina has been given to 4,809 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #2,319 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Rina, 2025

1 in 42,000

Rina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rina: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Ancient Greek and Javanese

What Rina means

Rina has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Rina

A separate documented entry treats Rina as a short form of Caterina. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Rina records a meaning of joy, singing.

One of the source’s documented entries for Rina records a meaning of melted.

Rina is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include white jasmine, village, vegetables, greens.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Short form of names ending in -rina, such as Katrina, Marina and Larina. Also borrowed from other European languages, such as Italian, in the 20th century.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rina is used in English, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Javanese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caterina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Rina is pronounced /ˈɹiːnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,809 girls were recorded with the name Rina between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1980; its best national rank was #1,143 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,708 in 2020 to #2,319 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,803 in 2015 to #2,319 in 2025.

How common is Rina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,319
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rina 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rina was born before 1987 — so the typical Rina is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
13.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,209
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 13.5% of all recorded uses (650).

Is Rina 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
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+389
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+484
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.8%
Peak was 1980 (90)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,143
1884

Spellings of Rina

Rina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 15.5% against Rina's 0.05%.

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 Rina is used

Across 2016–2025, Rina was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 16,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 4,545
  2. 2New York1 in 5,263
  3. 3California1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Rina around the world

Where Rina 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #2,146
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2020
    #471
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rina

People whose public names include Rina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rina. Linked forms have their own page here.

KetiBrinaKatiaRiinaRinnaKatinaKaterinaEkateriniLìnàAikaterina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,319
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 389
Best rank ever
#1,143
1884
Peak year
1980
90 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,809
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Rina

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

ZinaVinaChinaJinaElinaSinaLainaAdinaZainaKinaTainaBinaMinaDainaLinaIrinaJainaAlbinaMalinaKalinaRosinaRinoaSerinaRaina

Names with a curve like Rina

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

ZenaidaPilarJoiTamarBronwynBrigidLeanaCameliaSimonaIleanaHaydeeAnnamaria

Sibling names for Rina

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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