Lina
About 19,494 American babies have been named Lina since 1880, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 572nd. About 15,000 Linas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lina boys named Lina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,494
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 565th
- Rank in 2025
- 572nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 19,489 / 5
How old the living Linas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,494 babies given the name since 1880, about 15,000 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 6,900 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Linas
- Lina Kostenko (born 1930)Ukrainian writer
- Lina Medina (born 1933)Peruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history
- Lina Wertmüller (1928–2021)Italian film writer and director
- Lina Stern (1878–1968)Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist
- Lina Romay (1954–2012)Spanish actress
- Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992)Italo-Brazilian architect
- Lina Hurtig (born 1995)Swedish association football player
- Lina Cheryazova (1968–2019)freestyle skier
People named Lina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lina is most concentrated in California (2.3×), New York (1.9×), Texas (1.8×), Florida (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Lina peaked:
Lina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lina +3 spellings | 74,840 | 9th |
| Belgium girls | Lina +1 spelling | 8,219 | 7th |
| Austria girls | Lina | 5,709 | 15th |
| Switzerland girls | Lina | 5,433 | 4th |
| Italy girls | Lina | 3,794 | — |
| Sweden girls | Lina | 3,298 | 39th |
| Norway girls | Lina | 3,236 | 66th |
| Spain girls | Lina | 2,528 | 75th |
| England and Wales girls | Lina | 2,319 | 234th |
| Ireland girls | Lina | 121 | 320th |
| Poland girls | Lina | 94 birth registrations | 337th |
| Scotland girls | Lina | 87 | 275th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lina | 3 | 418th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lina | 4,428 | 0.356% | 3rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lina | 956 | 0.220% | 23rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lina | 27 | 0.041% | 57th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Lina | 22 | 0.592% | 2nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lina is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.48% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Lina: rank by region
In 2025, Lina was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 9 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lina | 10 | 174 |
| Wallonia | Lina | 18 | 101 |
| Brussels | Lina | 2 | 56 |
In 2024, Lina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Lina | 2 | 10 |
In 2024, Lina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Lina | 7 | 25 |
In 2025, Lina was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Lina | 234 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Lina | 232 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lina appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (2nd), Province of Limburg (5th), Province of Flemish Brabant (9th), Province of Antwerp (12th), Province of East Flanders (12th), Province of Hainaut (12th), Province of Walloon Brabant (13th), Province of Liège (13th), Province of West Flanders (38th), Province of Luxembourg (46th) and Province of Namur (60th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 1,083 | 7th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Lina | 4,157 | 5,424 |
| Finland girls | Lina | 1,152 | 1,430 |
| the Netherlands boys | Lina | — | 20 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 8,100 women called Lina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Lina | 135 | 3.118 | 63 |
| Ceuta | Lina | 117 | 2.825 | 81 |
| Girona | Lina | 310 | 0.749 | 204 |
| Tarragona | Lina | 287 | 0.656 | 235 |
| Almería | Lina | 226 | 0.599 | 232 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Lina | 189 | 0.599 | 232 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.