Geena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Gina
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 200K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 145K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 158K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Gina.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geena 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 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Geena | 8 |
| US United States | 1,661 | 1 in 200K | 1.7K | Geena | 247 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Geena | 21 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 590K | — | Geena | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 145K | 1 | Geena | 60 |
| NL Netherlands | 88 | 1 in 196K | 88 | Geena | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Geena | 19 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Geena | 6 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Geena 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.
In Portuguese, hell
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)
- Geena Davisb. 1956USAmerican actress (born 1956)
- Geena Lisa Peetersb. 1972BEBelgian singer and actor
- Meini Cheungb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Geena Rocerob. 1983PHFilipino model
- Geena Gallb. 1987USAmerican middle distance runner
- Geena Románb. 1994ESSpanish actress
- Geena Grossb. 1997NZNew Zealand association football player
- Geena-Lisa Buyleb. 2002BEBelgian association football player
- Geena Darepseudonym
- Geena M. HillUSUS entomologist
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,673 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 163 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 121 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 117 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 116 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 95 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 88 | #5,982 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 85 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 79 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 72 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 71 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 69 | #9,886 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Geena mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Gina. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Geena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,661 people named Geena in 2020, about 1 in 200 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Geena?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Geena a male or female name?
- Geena 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 Geena?
- In the etymology graph, Regina, Gina and Eugenia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Regena.
- In which country does Geena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Geena in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geena.
What do you want to know about Geena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geenaThe 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, “Geena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.