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Stina

Girls' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Kristina

Stina has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Stina, 2023

1 in 663,000

Stina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stina: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Kristina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stina means

Stina belongs to the name family reached through Stina → Kristina → Christina → Chrīstiāna. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Stina is used in Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christina, Stine, Kristina and Chrīstiāna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 girls were recorded with the name Stina between 1919 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #5,463 in 1919.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Stina?

Stina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stina 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stina was born before 1992 — so the typical Stina is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Stina 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (10)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,463
1919

Spellings of Stina

Stina is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 25.3% against Stina's 0.01%.

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.

Stina around the world

Where Stina 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1988–2023
    #7,544
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #402
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1951–1951
    #423
    in 1951

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway 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.

Stina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,463
1919
Peak year
1980
10 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Stina

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

KeinaGhinaStiorraIlinaSeinaAtinaYasinaKaminaNavinaAfinaRavinaAalinaValinaYalinaMubinaYelinaMilinaMasinaZalinaFainaOlinaEvinaRejinaNalina

Sibling names for Stina

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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