The name Lina has multiple origins and meanings. In Sanskrit, an old Indian language, it means ‘united’, in Perisan, it means ‘light’ and in Arabic, the name stands for ‘palm tree’ or ‘tender’.
Lina is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Lina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lina ranks 669. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Lina. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lina.
The name Lina has multiple origins and meanings. In Sanskrit, an old Indian language, it means ‘united’, in Perisan, it means ‘light’ and in Arabic, the name stands for ‘palm tree’ or ‘tender’.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Lina annualy. This means that there have been girls named Lina who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Lina have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Lina even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #214 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lina has never been ranked higher than #214. In 2022, she rivaled the 526 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 514 girls named Lina were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lina were born, there have been 187 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Lina, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Lina. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Lina living in one state or another. If your name is Lina and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In California, which has the most people named Lina relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,303 women and girls their names before you hear Lina as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lina 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.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lina 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 Lina, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lina
Lina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
N
A
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.
L
I
N
A
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. Lina sounds like this:
