Liina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: cloth (piece of garment used on furniture, for cleaning, etc.)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 57th most common given name.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 655(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 2.3K
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 655 (inferred from the name graph)
2,138 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
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)
cloth (piece of garment used on furniture, for cleaning, etc.)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liina 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.
2,138 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Liina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, date palm
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In urj-fin-pro, flax
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, hemp
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)
- Liina Reimanb. 1891EEEstonian actress (1891-1961)
- Liina Orlovab. 1941EEEstonian actress (born 1941)
- Liina Siibb. 1963EEEstonian artist (born 1963)
- Liina Tennosaarb. 1965EEEstonian actor (born 1965)
- Liina Olmarub. 1967EEEstonian actor (born 1967)
- Liina Lukasb. 1970EEEstonian literary scholar and translator (born 1970)
- Liina Brunelleb. 1978EEFrench actress (born 1978)
- Liina Kersnab. 1980EEEstonian politician (born 1980)
- Hanna-Liina Võsab. 1981EEEstonian singer (born 1981)
- Liina Laasmab. 1992EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 1992)
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.7K | #461 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 2.6K | #55 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 2.6K | #48 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 120 | #7,524 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 88 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 80 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Liina?
- In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Karoliina.
- How common is the name Liina?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,138 people named Liina, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Liina compared with other names?
- In Finland, Liina is the 997th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Liina mean, and where does it come from?
- cloth (piece of garment used on furniture, for cleaning, etc.) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Liina have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Liina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liina.
- Is Liina a male or female name?
- Liina 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liinaThe 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, “Liina” — the 997th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.