Ginna
Feminine · “Latin regina”
Regina is the feminine of rex, and the queen still signs it. Elizabeth II signed documents Elizabeth R, for Regina, throughout her reign, and her successors sign R for Rex. A Latin word for a king's wife survives as a single letter at the bottom of state papers.
How old is the name Ginna?
Ginna first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Ginna alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 800 people named Ginna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ginna most popular?
Ginna peaked in 1963, reaching #2780 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 6,080 places below that high. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From regina to Ginna
The story of Ginna
Regina is one of a small set of Latin words that survive in English constitutional practice unchanged. The monarch's signature is the initial followed by R, for Regina or Rex, and legal cases prosecuted by the crown are styled R v the defendant. Coins carry the abbreviated titles in Latin. The word itself is straightforwardly the feminine of rex, and rex descends from a very old Indo-European root about ruling and about straightness, which also gives Sanskrit rajan, Gaulish rix, Irish ri and, through a different path, English right and reign. Regina became a Christian name through a martyr and through the Marian title Regina Caeli, queen of heaven, and it is one of the very few Latin common nouns given as a name without alteration.
Meaningscholars disagree
Latin regina, a queen
Ginna is a short form of Regina, from Latin regina, a queen, the feminine of rex, from a root about ruling that also gives Sanskrit rajan and Irish ri. It may alternatively be a clip of Virginia, Georgina or Luigina. Italian and Spanish clip names from the back, which is what produces Gina from any of them. It peaks in the American data in 1963.
How the name formed
- regina
- Regina
- Ginna
Related forms: Gina · Gina
Pronouncing Ginna
JEE-nah
Two syllables, stress on the first. The g is soft, following the Italian. GHIN-ah with a hard g is also heard from readers applying English rules, since a doubled n does not soften a g.
Nicknames for Ginna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 198024 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2780reached in 1963
- Change vs 2024
- −21.4%11 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ginna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gina in Italian — spelling variant
- Gina in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Ginnas among us
people named Ginna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Ginna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ginna
- #8860
- Ginna on the 2025 chart
- #859
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ginna went to 11 girls in 2025, but Gina is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 101, which makes it the 859th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,001 places above the chart.
- Gina90
- Ginna11
About 1 girl in 15,914 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Ginna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Madalyne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ginna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Madalyne climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Madalyne's path sketches the road Ginna is walking now.
Ginna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Ginna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ginna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Latin word behind it is settled and dignified.
- Regina is available as a full formal version.
- It is short and easy to say.
- Gina with one n is far more common.
- The doubled n invites a hard g reading.
- Which longer name it stands for is not recoverable.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ginnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Ginna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ginna?
- Ginna is one of 2 recorded spellings. Gina is the more common one — 90 births in 2025 against 11 for Ginna.
- How popular is the name Ginna in 2025?
- Ginna ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ginna?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Ginna — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ginna with classmates?
- Ginna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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