Kina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 227K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 68K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 193K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
1,466 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kina is read(measured from records)
Kina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Hindi32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kina in Hindi.
- English31%
The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian8.4%
cinchona bark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kina in Chinese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,466 | 1 in 227K | 1.4K | Kina | 222 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Kina | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Kina | 40 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 404K | listed | Kina | 53 |
| SE Sweden | 150 | 1 in 68K | 150 | — | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 78 | 1 in 222K | 73 | Kina | 18 |
1,466 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Kina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scottish (Highland): short form of Alickina (see ALICK ).
as a word
In Norwegian Nynorsk, China (a large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949; official name: Folkerepublikken Kina)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pwn, mother (female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tongan, meat or fish portion of a baked or roasted meal
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Kina Konovab. 1872BGBulgarian schoolteacher
- Kina Reuschb. 1940CACanadian; artist (1940–1988)
- Kinab. 1969USAmerican musician
- Kina Swidénb. 1976SESwedish cross-country skier
- Kina Malpartidab. 1980PEPeruvian boxer
- Kina Grannisb. 1985USAmerican guitarist
- Kina HöglundSEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1213-9953
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 49 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 503 | #40,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 399 | #52,037 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #45,693 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #28,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname 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
- 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 Kina mean, and where does it come from?
- The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kina?
- A machine transcription gives /kinə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kina a male or female name?
- Kina is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Kina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kina.
- Where is Kina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kina is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,466 people named Kina in 2020, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kinaThe 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, “Kina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.