Tina
Feminine
Tina is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 292,146 girls against 904 boys since 1880. See Tina as a boy name
Tina is the end of half a dozen long names, cut loose and given a life of its own. The women who carried it into general American use both had to fight for the right to keep their names at all, which is an odd thing for two unrelated people to have in common.
How old is the name Tina?
Tina was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Tina alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 264,000 people named Tina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tina most popular?
Tina peaked in 1968, reaching #18 nationally. Today it ranks #2778, 2,760 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Christina to Tina
The story of Tina
The best-known bearer took the name as a stage name and then had to litigate to keep it. It had been devised for her by a husband who registered it, and when the marriage ended she gave up the money, the property and the royalties in exchange for keeping the two syllables she had been performing under for sixteen years — a trade that looked lopsided at the time and turned out not to be. Another Tina had a shorter and stranger career: a photographer and organizer who documented a revolution, was expelled from one country, fought in a war in another, and died in a taxi in a third at forty-five, with an obituary that argued about her the whole way through.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending comes from Latin, where it makes a feminine and often a small one, and it sits at the end of Christina, Martina, Valentina, Albertina and Ernestina. Which of them a particular Tina came from is usually unrecoverable, and by the middle of the last century it was being given directly to children with no long form behind it at all.
How the name formed
- Christina
- Tina
Related forms: Tina · Tina · Tina
Pronouncing Tina
TEE-nuh
Two syllables, stress at the front. Identical in every language that uses it.
Nicknames for Tina
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 196613,892 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #18reached in 1968
- Change vs 2022
- +3.4%61 in 2025, from 59
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.
Tina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tina in Italian — same name
- Tina in Spanish — same name
- Tina in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Tinas among us
people named Tina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was named Tina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Catherine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Catherine climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Catherine's path sketches the road Tina is walking now.
Tina 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
Where Tina is headed
Tina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, warm and understood without explanation anywhere in the West.
- It needs no long form and accepts several.
- It is one of the few short names that works equally at five and at fifty.
- It reads as a short form, so she may be asked what it is short for.
- The name is strongly associated with particular decades.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well, though it belongs overwhelmingly to the girls.
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Feminine · #2778 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 264,000 people named Tina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tina in 2025?
- Tina ranks #2778 among US girl names in 2025, with 61 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tina?
- About 1 in every 26,349 US girls born in 2025 was named Tina — 61 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tina with classmates?
- Tina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tina
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Eugenia#2778 · Amour#2778 · Wynona#2778 · Joie#2778 · Bennie#2778 · Havyn#2778 · Wisdom#2778 · Aela#2778
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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