Jina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a Jaina Arhat; a son of Yadu (P); Jina (N);
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 49th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 455as Gina
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1Kas 진아
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #632 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 578 (measured from records)
- 1 in 691K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650,000 named Gina, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gina in US United States, PH Philippines, IT Italy and 3 more, 진아 in KR South Korea and גינה in RO Romania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Jaina Arhat; a son of Yadu (P); Jina (N);
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Gina | 44 |
| PH Philippines | #49 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 455 | — | Gina | 137 |
| US United States | #290 | 147,074as Gina | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Gina | 578 |
| KR South Korea | #125 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | 진아 | 109 |
| IT Italy | #433 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 9 | Gina | 108 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 21K | גינה | 64 |
| NZ New Zealand | #244 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Gina | 128 |
| NL Netherlands | #844 | 25 | 1 in 691K | 1.6K | Gina | 81 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Swahili: a name; also Buddhist title 'conqueror'
as a nameAfrican Names
In pi, ‘Conqueror’; an honorific title of the Buddha.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In English, An Afroasiatic language spoken in Cameroon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
name, identity
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
victor.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tae Jin Ahb. 1953KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Song Ji-nab. 1959KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter
- Kim Jin-ab. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Choi Ji-nab. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kang Jin-ab. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter, born 1981
- Nanab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer and actress, born 1991
- Won Jin-ahb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Lee Jin-ahb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pianist, singer, and songwriter
- Kwon Jin-ahb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and guitarist
- Mahsa Aminib. 2000IRnot in their usual nameIranian woman who died in police custody
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #5,203 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 25 | #12,892 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 20 | #19,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #5,203 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 1 | #14,441 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jina mean, and where does it come from?
- a Jaina Arhat; a son of Yadu (P); Jina (N); Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How common is the name Jina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25 people named Jina, about 1 in 691 thousand residents.
- How common is Jina compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jina is the 49th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- Is Jina a male or female name?
- Jina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 653 thousand people named Gina in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jina is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 691 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Jina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jina” — the 49th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.