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Rina

About 4,809 American babies have been named Rina since 1884, most of them around 1980. In 2025 it ranked 2,298th. About 4,200 Rinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rina

By the numbers

Total US births
4,809
Estimated living today
4,200
Median age today
33
Peak year
1980
Best rank
1,380th
Rank in 2025
2,298th
First recorded
1884

How old the living Rinas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,809 babies given the name since 1884, about 4,200 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 320 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

Short form of names ending in -rina, such as Katrina, Marina and Larina. Also borrowed from other European languages, such as Italian, in the 20th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Rinas

People named Rina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rina is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rina is most concentrated in New York (5.6×), California (3.3×), New Jersey (3.2×), Illinois (0.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1980

The most popular girls’ names the year Rina peaked:

All the names of 1980

Rina elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Rina 1,525 266th
Switzerland girls Rina 431 297th
England and Wales girls Rina 251 1,809th
Norway girls Rina 198 386th
Belgium girls Rina 20 1,038th
Poland girls Rina 2 birth registrations 724th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Rina: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Rina 373 0.030% 208th
French girls Switzerland Rina 51 0.012% 312th
Italian girls Switzerland Rina 6 0.009% 116th
Romansh girls Switzerland Rina 1 0.027% 15th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Rina is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 47 of them.

Rina: rank by region

In 2013, Rina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Rina 847 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Rina by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 6 538th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Rina among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Rina 177 194

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Rina against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.