Lina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as possibly a nickname from Una ‘thread’, or a variant of li?tea ‘line’.
- COColombia≈1 in 371(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 30as Елена
- BYBelarus≈1 in 35as Елена
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 Lina 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #2 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 371 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700,000 named Елена, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елена in RU Russia, BY Belarus, FI Finland, Helen in US United States, Олена in UA Ukraine and Helena in BR Brazil.
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)
Short form used across languages, often from Carolina, Angelina, or names ending in -lina.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lina is read(measured from records)
Lina is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish32%
possibly a nickname from Una ‘thread’, or a variant of li?tea ‘line’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
probably a short form of a female personal name ending with -Una, for example Carolina, Angelina.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Femenino de Lino o abreviación de Adelina, Carolina, Angelina, etc.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English15%
A female given name, occasionally used in English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French15%
Short form used across languages, often from Carolina, Angelina, or names ending in -lina.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #2 | ≈4,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 30 | #3 | Елена | 309 |
| UA Ukraine | #2 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | listed | Олена | 174 |
| BR Brazil | #17 | 366,186as Helena | 1 in 578 | 366K | Helena | 227 |
| US United States | #26 | 284,872as Alan | 1 in 1.2K | 483K | Helen | 644 |
| GR Greece | #9 | 272,590as Ελένη | 1 in 39 | 520K | Ελενη | 198 |
| BY Belarus | #1 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 35 | 39 | Елена | 81 |
| CO Colombia | #15 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 371 | 3 | Lina | 204 |
| FI Finland | #1 | 117,524as Helena | 1 in 47 | 175K | Елена | 116 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Lina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From a word denoting a type of palm tree.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Lina Radkeb. 1903DEGerman middle distance runner (1903-1983)
- Lina Heydrichb. 1911DEGerman writer
- Lina Bo Bardib. 1914BRItalo-Brazilian architect (1914-1992)
- Lina Kostenkob. 1930UAUkrainian writer
- Lina Canalejasb. 1932ESSpanish actress
- Lina Medinab. 1933PEPeruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history
- Lina Sastrib. 1950ITItalian actress and singer
- Lina Politob. 1954ITItalian actress (born 1954)
- Lina Escob. 1985USAmerican actress
- Lina Magullb. 1994DEGerman footballer player
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 149 sources across 78 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 29K | #1,283 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,185 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 8.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.8K | #1,858 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.9K | #556 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 527 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 329 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 73 | #1,283 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- Where does the name Lina come from?
- Short form used across languages, often from Carolina, Angelina, or names ending in -lina. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Lina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 million people named Елена in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Lina mean?
- In Spanish, possibly a nickname from Una ‘thread’, or a variant of li?tea ‘line’.
- What are other forms of the name Lina?
- In the etymology graph, Kathy, Tina and Caroline are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Evelina.
- Is Lina a male or female name?
- Lina 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.
- How common is the name Lina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 366,186 people named Helena in 2022, about 1 in 578 residents.
- How common is Lina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lina is the 2nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/linaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lina” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.