Lina
From Latin, with the sense of tender or gentle. Barely 2,000 women in Poland carry it and it stays rare, yet the count is climbing: more girls got it last year than in years past.
Lina Pronunciation
Lina is pronounced LEE-nah (/ˈlina/).
What Lina means
Where Lina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
In Poland, Lina often begins as an ending. Trim Karolina, Paulina, or Adelina down to their final syllables and Lina is what stays behind. Each of those longer names reaches back to Latin, and that Latin origin is the real spine of the word. The sense of tender and gentle settled onto it afterward.
The same short name lives a separate life in Arabic. There Lina names a young palm tree, and it grows from a root that means soft. Two languages, one small word.
The name stays short. On a school register it takes four letters, with no diminutive trailing after. A teacher reads it once and has it. In Polish the meaning comes out as delikatna, subtelna, and under that everyday sense sits the older Latin bone.
How many people are named Lina
1 in 10828 women in Poland is named Lina. 2,084 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #694 among female names.
Lina's popularity over time
12 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #654 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2017.
Where Lina is most popular
Lina is most popular in Masovian, 322% above the national average (18 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+217%). It is least common in Lesser Poland, 27% below average.
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Masovian18 girls born+322%
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Lower Silesian6 girls born+217%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−27%
Lina as a middle name
Lina is a first name for 2,084 women in Poland and a middle name for another 70, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 806th, between Kesja (70) and Fabiana (69).
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804
70Joyce
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805
70Kesja
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80670Lina
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807
69Fabiana
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808
69Julietta