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The first name 
Calina

Calina is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Calina meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Calina is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Calina. In the SmartGenius ranking, Calina is #4,130 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Calina.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Calina

Calina -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Calina did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Calina seemed to be more popular than ever in 2018. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,380, 39 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Calina, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Calina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Calina in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Calina a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #3,569 - with a total of 36 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Calina -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Calina is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 79 Americans in total bear this name. And these 79 women are located in only three states: California, Florida and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Calina and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Calina in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 257,119 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Calina.

Calina has 6 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With six letters, the name Calina is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

Other names with 
C, a, l, i, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Calina – C, a, l, i, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Calian or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Calina

If your name is Calina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Calina

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Calina, you can simply say:

Cat

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Calina is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Calina in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Calina

Calina

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Calina

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Calina is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
A
L
I
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Calina

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
A
L
I
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Calina sounds like this: