Gina (given name)
Not to be confused with Jina (Korean name).
Gina (occasional variants Geena, Gena, Jeana, Jeanna) is a feminine given name, in origin a hypocoristic form of names ending in -gina (by metanalysis of the latinate feminine suffix -ina), such as Luigina, Regina or Georgina, also of Virginia or Eugenia.
The short form was popularized in the 1950s by the actress Gina Lollobrigida (b. 1927), whose birth name is Luigina. Lollobrigida became famous in 1953, from which year popularity of the given name Gina in the United State rose steeply, reaching a peak at rank 54 in 1967. Since the 1970s, it has declined steadily, falling below rank 1,000 in 2009.
People called Gina
- Gina Arnold, American rock critic
- Gina Austin (Georgina), American Model
- Gina Bachauer, Greek classical pianist
- Gina Barreca (Regina), American humorist and professor
- Gina Beck, English actress and singer
- Gina Bellman, British actress
- Gina Birch, British punk musician, founder of The Raincoats
- Gina Bold, London-born artist of Greek and Scottish background
- Gina Breedlove, American singer and stage actress
- Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter
- Gina Cerminara, American author
- Gina Choi (지나), Korean-Canadian Singer
- Gina V. D'Orio, German singer and former main vocalist of EC8OR
- Geena Davis, American actress
- Gina Ferris Wilkins, American novelist
- Gina Ford, British writer on parenting methods
- Gina Gallego, American television actress
- Gina Gaston, American news presenter
- Gina Gershon, American movie actress
- Gina Gillespie, American child actress
- Gina Glocksen, American singer
- Gina Gogean, Romanian gymnast
- Gina Goldberg, Finnish model, actress and singer
- Gina Grant, American who was admitted to Harvard but then had her admission rescinded when it was known she had killed her mother
- Gina Green, American Urban Gospel singer
- Gina Guidi, American boxer
- Gina Haley (Linda Georgina), American singer-songwriter
- Gina Hart, American comics artist
- Gina Hecht, American actress
- Gina Holden, Canadian actress
- Gina Jeffreys, Australian country singer
- Gina Keatley, Celebrity Chef
- Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
- Gina Kolata, American science journalist
- Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
- Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- Gina Longo, American musician
- Gina Mantegna, American actress
- Gina Maria Adenauer, race car driver
- Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress
- Gina McKee, English television actress
- Gina Nemo, American actress
- Gina Pareño, Filipino-American actress
- Gina Philips, American television actress
- Gina Prince-Bythewood, American film director
- Gina Ravera, American actress
- Gina Riley, Australian actor, writer, singer and comedian
- Gina Rinehart, chair of Hancock Prospecting and daughter of Lang Hancock
- Gina Rodriguez, American actress
- Gina Sanders, New Zealand opera singer
- Gina Schock (Regina), drummer for The Go-Go's
- Gina Sigstad, Norwegian cross-country skier
- Gina Silva, American newscaster based in Los Angeles
- Gina Stile, American rock guitarist
- Gina Swainson, American model
- Gina T., Dutch Dance-pop singer
- Gina Tognoni, American soap opera actress
- Gina Tolleson, American model
- Gina Torres, American television and movie actress
- Gina Tuttle, American actress and voice-over artist
- Gina Yashere, British comedian
- Countess Georgina von Wilczek, "Gina", Princess of Liechtenstein, the mother of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Pseudonym
- Gina Lynn, American pornographic actress
- Gina Wild, stage name of Michaela Schaffrath, German pornographic actress
Fictional characters
- Gina Buchanan, fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap River City
- Gina Calabrese, fictional police detective on the television series Miami Vice
- Gina Cavalli, antagonist in the video game R:Racing Evolution
- Gina Cross, fictional character in the Half-Life series of computer games
- Gina Gambarro, fictional character from the television series Ugly Betty
- Gina Gold, fictional character in the British drama The Bill
- Gina Kincaid, fictional character in the television series Beverly Hills 90210
- Gina Patrick, fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Gina Roma, fictional character in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Gina Rossi, fictional character in the British prison drama series Bad Girls (TV series)
- Gina Russo, fictional character in the American medical drama Nip/Tuck
- Gina Von Amburg, fictional character in the American soap opera Days of our Lives
See also
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