Gina (given name)

Gina (occasional variants Geena, Gena, Jena, 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 (1927−2023), whose birth name is Luigina. Lollobrigida became famous in 1953, from which year popularity of the given name Gina in the United States 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 Apostol, Philippines-born writer
 * Gina Arnold, American rock critic
 * Gina Austin (Georgina), American model
 * Gina Bachauer (1913–1976), 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 (born 1982), American actress and mixed martial artist
 * Gina Cerminara, American author
 * Gina Choi (지나), Korean-Canadian Singer
 * Gina Cruz Blackledge (born 1969), Mexican politician
 * 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 Gleason, American guitarist
 * 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 * Gina Grant, American who was admitted to Harvard but then had her admission rescinded when it was known she had killed her mother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 Gray, Native American artist and activist
 * Gina Green, American Urban Gospel singer
 * Gina Guidi, American boxer
 * Gina Haley (Linda Georgina), American singer-songwriter
 * Gina Hart, American comics artist
 * Gina Haspel (born 1956), American intelligence officer and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
 * Gina Hecht, American actress
 * Gina Holden, Canadian actress
 * Gina Jeffreys, Australian country singer
 * Gina Johnsen, American politician from Michigan
 * Gina Keatley, Celebrity Chef
 * Gina Kirschenheiter, American television personality
 * Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
 * Gina Kolata, American science journalist
 * Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and political activist
 * Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
 * Gina Liano, Australian barrister and television personality
 * Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
 * Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and politician
 * Gina Mantegna, American actress
 * Gina Maria Adenauer, race car driver
 * Gina McKee, English actress
 * Gina Montalto (2003–2018), one of the 17 victims who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
 * Gina Nemo, American actress
 * Gina Pareño, Filipino-American actress
 * Gina Philips, American television actress
 * Gina Prince-Bythewood, American film director
 * Gina Raimondo, American politician businesswoman
 * Gina Ravera, American actress
 * Gina Riley, Australian actor, writer, singer and comedian
 * Gina Rinehart, chair of Hancock Prospecting
 * Gina Rodriguez, American actress
 * Gina Marie Rzucidlo, American mountaineer
 * Gina Sanmiguel, Ecuadorian politician
 * 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 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 Wilkinson, Canadian actress, director, and playwright
 * Gina Yashere, British comedian
 * Countess Georgina von Wilczek, "Gina", Princess of Liechtenstein, the mother of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
 * Gina, lead member of Irish pop group Gina, Dale Haze and the Champions

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 Gillotti, fictional character from comic strip series Dennis the Menace
 * Gina Gold, fictional character in the British drama The Bill
 * Gina Gray, fictional character. Wife of Michael Gray from the BBC drama Peaky Blinders
 * Gina Guerra, fictional character in the video game Far Cry New Dawn
 * Gina Inviere, fictional character on Battlestar Galactica
 * Gina Jefferson, fictional character in Sesame Street
 * Gina Kincaid, fictional character in the television series Beverly Hills 90210
 * Gina Linetti, fictional character in the American television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
 * Gina Patrick, fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
 * Gina Porter, fictional character in the television series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
 * Gina Roma, fictional character in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
 * Gina Rossi, fictional character in the New Zealand medical drama series Shortland Street
 * Gina Russo, fictional character in the American medical drama Nip/Tuck
 * Gina Von Amberg, fictional character in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
 * Gina Waters-Payne, fictional character in the American television series Martin
 * Gina, a fictional engine seen in Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
 * Gina McClearly, identical twin sister to Leni McClearly in the Netflix miniseries Echoes