Riina

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Finnish: a female given name, short for Katariina (“Catherine”)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/riːnɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Riina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 61st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 780(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 961
  • SESweden1 in 116K

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)

5,800 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 780 (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RiinaLatin(measured from records)
РийнаCyrillic(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)

a female given name derived from Katariina (“Catherine”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Riina is read(measured from records)

Riina 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.

  • Finnish29%

    a female given name, short for Katariina (“Catherine”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Estonian26%

    a female given name derived from Katariina (“Catherine”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English13%

    A surname from Sicilian.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Riina 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.

Where Riina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#2875,8001 in 9616.2KRiina84
EE Estonia#61≈1,600 est.≈1 in 7803.3KRiina61
US United States—≈96 est.≈1 in 3.5M229Riina100
SE Sweden—881 in 116K88Riina12
DE Germany—≈87 est.≈1 in 919K—Riina25
CH Switzerland—≈31 est.≈1 in 273K5Riina4
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——

5,800 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Riina is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Finland, Estonia

    Also written Rîina

  • Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States

    Also written Riįnã

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Rîînã

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Riina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, var. siciliana de Regina

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Regina

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

1940196019802000Riina Valgmaa, b. 1952Riina Hein, b. 1955Riina Sildos, b. 1964Riina Katajavuori, b. 1968Riina Solman, b. 1972Riina Toya, b. 1973Riina Põldroos, b. 1976Riina Maidre, b. 1982Riina Sikkut, b. 1983

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)

InformalHei Riina,Hi Riina, (English)

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 31 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Riina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020229#87,312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010205#90,113
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000155#106,477
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

How do you pronounce Riina?
A machine transcription gives /riːnɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
What does the name Riina mean?
In Finnish, a female given name, short for Katariina (“Catherine”)
Where does the name Riina come from?
a female given name derived from Katariina (“Catherine”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Riina a male or female name?
Riina 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 Riina?
In the etymology graph, Karen, Kathleen and Catherine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kadri.
In which country does Riina have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Riina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riina.
How common is the name Riina?
In Finland, the national register counted 5,800 people named Riina, about 1 in 961 residents.
How common is Riina compared with other names?
In Finland, Riina is the 287th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.

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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, “Riina” — the 287th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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