Gina is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Gina is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,546 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,545 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 149,044 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Gina. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
#54 - this is the highest position Gina has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Gina reached this top position was in the last century, in 1967, when 6,374 newborn girls were named Gina. But as our statistics show, Gina has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1908, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Gina is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 99 newborns were given the name Gina, making them rank #1,773. Although the name Gina was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Gina are still there in our contemporary times.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Gina occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Gina is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Gina is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 149,018 women and girls of all generations bear the name Gina – that is one in 1,035. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Rhode Island, where one in 554 women and girls is called Gina, while it is particularly rare in Vermont, where you have to ask an average of 2,751 women for their name to get Gina as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Gina is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gina 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gina, you can simply say:
Goat
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gina
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Gina sounds like this:
