Gina
Greek at root, with a meaning that outsizes the name itself: "queen". Only about 130 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, and newborns almost never receive it now.
Gina Pronunciation
Gina is pronounced GEE-nah (/ˈgina/).
What Gina means
Where Gina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gina comes to us shortened. It is the tail of longer names, Georgina above all. Georgina goes back to the Greek georgos, meaning the one who works the earth. The Greek root speaks of soil, not of thrones.
The meaning most people attach to Gina is queen, królowa in Polish. That sense arrives by a different road. It rides in from Latin Regina, another name Gina can shorten, and the royal reading settled onto Gina later.
Italy gave the name its most famous face. Gina Lollobrigida, born Luigina in 1927, carried it across the screen for four decades. Through her, Gina sounds thoroughly Italian, whatever its Greek and Latin threads.
A Polish teacher reading the class register finds Gina between longer names. On paper it runs to four letters, and behind them stand Georgina, Regina, and the Greek georgos.
How many people are named Gina
1 in 168238 women in Poland is named Gina. 134 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2861 among female names.
Gina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Gina as a middle name
Gina is a first name for 134 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1106th, between Christa (39) and Grazia (39).
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#1104 Chloé39
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#1105 Christa39
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#1106 Gina39
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#1107 Grazia39
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#1108 Hilaria39