Tina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Originally a pet form of Christina, Christine, and Clementina; now also used independently
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tiːnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 28th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 257(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 268
- CNChina≈1 in 619
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 Tina 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)
- #332 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 603 (measured from records)
- 1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Originally a pet form of Christina, Christine, and Clementina; now also used independently.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tina 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 | — | ≈2,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Tina | 80 |
| US United States | #154 | 253,384 | 1 in 1.3K | 253K | Tina | 603 |
| NG Nigeria | #387 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Tina | 89 |
| GB United Kingdom | #170 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 805 | 973 | Tina | 295 |
| DE Germany | #226 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Tina | 251 |
| DK Denmark | #48 | 22,855 | 1 in 257 | 23K | Tina | 170 |
| GE Georgia | #66 | 8,986as თინა | 1 in 445 | 9K | Tina | 55 |
| SI Slovenia | #28 | 7,838 | 1 in 268 | 7.8K | Tina | 90 |
| NZ New Zealand | #139 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 744 | 15 | Tina | 139 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Tina 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.
Shortened form of )\Christina and other girls’ names ending in -tina; now often used as an independent given name. Tirion ° Welsh: modern given name, from the vocabulary word meaning ‘kind’, ‘gentle’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Tina är ursprungligen en smekform till namn som → Albertina, → Christina. Kända namnbärare är den amerikanska artisten Tina Turner (1939–2023) och den svenska tv-kocken Tina Nordström (f. 1973). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 24 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ) Tine: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die auf »-tina/-tine« ausgehen, z. B. Christina (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Short form of CHRISTINA and, less commonly, of other female names ending in - tina . This is a relatively common given name in the English-speaking world, and elsewhere. It was the most common of all female names bestowed in Denmark in the mid-1960s.
as a word
In fj, mother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Tina Turnerb. 1939CHAmerican-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)
- Tina Aumontb. 1946USFrench actress (1946–2006)
- Tina Smithb. 1958USUnited States Senator from Minnesota
- Tina Liffordb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Tina Arenab. 1967AUAustralian singer, songwriter and television personality
- Twinkle Khannab. 1974INnot in their usual nameIndian author, interior designer
- Tina Mazeb. 1983SISlovenian alpine skier
- Tina Karolb. 1985UAUkrainian singer, actress, television presenter
- Tina Majorinob. 1985USAmerican actress
- Tena Desaeb. 1987INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 127 sources across 68 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 253K | #215 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23K | #16 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7.8K | #48 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 7.8K | #18 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1986 | 335 | #17 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 283 | #215 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 61 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Tina mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a pet form of Christina, Christine, and Clementina; now also used independently. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Tina?
- A machine transcription gives /tiːnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tina a male or female name?
- Tina 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.
- What are other forms of the name Tina?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Christine and Chris are forms of the same name in other languages; Tineke is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina and Krystina.
- How common is the name Tina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 253,384 people named Tina in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Tina compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Tina is the 28th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Tina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 million people named Tina in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tina.
- Where is Tina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tina is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 257 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Tina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tinaThe 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, “Tina” — the 28th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.