Gina (given name)
Appearance
Gina (occasional variants Geena, Gena, Jena, Jeana, Jeanna) is a feminine given name, in origin a hypocoristic form of names ending in -gina (by metanalysis of the latinate feminine suffix -ina), such as Luigina, Regina or Georgina, also of Virginia or Eugenia.
The short form was popularized in the 1950s by the actress Gina Lollobrigida (1927−2023), whose birth name is Luigina. Lollobrigida became famous in 1953, from which year popularity of the given name Gina in the United States rose steeply, reaching a peak at rank 54 in 1967. Since the 1970s, it has declined steadily, falling below rank 1,000 in 2009.
People called Gina
[edit]- Gina Aitken (born 1993), Scottish curler
- Gina Apostol, Philippines-born writer
- Gina Arnold, American rock critic
- Gina Austin (Georgina), American model
- Gina Bachauer (1913–1976), Greek classical pianist
- Gina Ballantyne (1919–1973), Australian poet
- Gina Barreca (Regina), American humorist and professor
- Gina Beck, English actress and singer
- Gina Bellman, British actress
- Gina Birch, British punk musician, founder of The Raincoats
- Gina Bold, London-born artist of Greek and Scottish background
- Gina Breedlove, American singer and stage actress
- Gina Carano (born 1982), American actress and mixed martial artist
- Gina Cerminara, American author
- Gina Choi (지나), Korean-Canadian Singer
- Gina Crampton (born 1991), New Zealand netball international player
- Gina Cruz Blackledge (born 1969), Mexican politician
- Geena Davis, American actress
- Gina Din (born 1961), Kenyan businesswoman
- Gina Ferris Wilkins, American novelist
- Gina Ford, British writer on parenting methods
- Gina Gallego, American television actress
- Gina Gaston, American news presenter
- Gina Gershon, American movie actress
- Gina Gleason, American guitarist
- Gina Glocksen, American singer
- Gina Gogean, Romanian gymnast
- Gina Goldberg, Finnish model, actress and singer
- Gina Grant, American who was admitted to Harvard but then had her admission rescinded when it was known she had killed her mother
- Gina Gray, Native American artist and activist
- Gina Green, American Urban Gospel singer
- Gina Guidi, American boxer
- Gina Haley (Linda Georgina), American singer-songwriter
- Gina Hart, American comics artist
- Gina Haspel (born 1956), American intelligence officer and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Gina Hecht, American actress
- Gina Holden, Canadian actress
- Gina Jeffreys, Australian country singer
- Gina Johnsen, American politician from Michigan
- Gina Keatley, Celebrity Chef
- Gina Kirschenheiter, American television personality
- Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
- Gina Kolata, American science journalist
- Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and political activist
- Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
- Gina Liano, Australian barrister and television personality
- Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and politician
- Gina Mantegna, American actress
- Gina Maria Adenauer, race car driver
- Gina McKee, English actress
- Gina Montalto (2003–2018), one of the 17 victims who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
- Gina Nemo, American actress
- Gina Pareño, Filipino-American actress
- Gina Philips, American television actress
- Gina Prince-Bythewood, American film director
- Gina Raimondo, American politician businesswoman
- Gina Ravera, American actress
- Gina Riley, Australian actor, writer, singer and comedian
- Gina Rinehart, chair of Hancock Prospecting
- Gina Rodriguez, American actress
- Gina Marie Rzucidlo, American mountaineer
- Gina Sanmiguel, Ecuadorian politician
- Gina Schock (Regina), drummer for The Go-Go's
- Gina Sigstad, Norwegian cross-country skier
- Gina Silva, American newscaster based in Los Angeles
- Gina Stile, American rock guitarist
- Gina Swainson, American model
- Gina Tognoni, American soap opera actress
- Gina Tolleson, American model
- Gina Torres, American television and movie actress
- Gina Tuttle, American actress and voice-over artist
- Gina Wilkinson, Canadian actress, director, and playwright
- Gina Yashere, British comedian
- Countess Georgina von Wilczek, "Gina", Princess of Liechtenstein, the mother of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
- Gina, lead member of Irish pop group Gina, Dale Haze and the Champions
Pseudonym
[edit]- Gina Lynn, American pornographic actress
- Gina Wild, stage name of Michaela Schaffrath, German pornographic actress
Fictional characters
[edit]- Gina Buchanan, fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap River City
- Gina Calabrese, fictional police detective on the television series Miami Vice
- Gina Cavalli, antagonist in the video game R:Racing Evolution
- Gina Cross, fictional character in the Half-Life series of computer games
- Gina Gambarro, fictional character from the television series Ugly Betty
- Gina Gillotti, fictional character from comic strip series Dennis the Menace
- Gina Gold, fictional character in the British drama The Bill
- Gina Gray, fictional character. Wife of Michael Gray from the BBC drama Peaky Blinders
- Gina Guerra, fictional character in the video game Far Cry New Dawn
- Gina Inviere, fictional character on Battlestar Galactica
- Gina Jefferson, fictional character in Sesame Street
- Gina Kincaid, fictional character in the television series Beverly Hills 90210
- Gina Linetti, fictional character in the American television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Gina Patrick, fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Gina Porter, fictional character in the television series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
- Gina Roma, fictional character in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Gina Rossi, fictional character in the New Zealand medical drama series Shortland Street
- Gina Russo, fictional character in the American medical drama Nip/Tuck
- Gina Von Amberg, fictional character in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Gina Waters-Payne, fictional character in the American television series Martin
- Gina, a fictional engine seen in Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
- Gina McClearly, identical twin sister to Leni McClearly in the Netflix miniseries Echoes