Lina: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced LEE-nuh · 2 syllables

Short form of any female name ending in -lina, such as Angelina, Carolina, Evelina. It can also be construed as a rare feminine form of Linus.

How popular is Lina?

Lina was the #572 name in the US in 2025, given to 527 babies. It’s rising: up 52% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1880.

Babies named Lina in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1880).

Half of US adults named Lina are older than 37; most are between 19 and 77. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Lina have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Lina is pronounced LEE-nuh.

Lina was the #572 name in the US in 2025, given to 527 babies. It’s rising: up 52% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1880.

Half of US adults named Lina are older than 37. Most are between 19 and 77.