Tina
Masculine
Tina is given to girls far more often — 292,146 girls against 904 boys since 1880. See Tina as a girl 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 first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Tina alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 800 people named Tina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tina most popular?
Tina peaked in 1967, reaching #955 nationally. See the whole 1967 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
- 1949
- Most boys named
- 196757 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #955reached in 1967
- Change vs 1993
- −37.5%5 in 1996, from 8
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
Tinas among us
people named Tina are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tina sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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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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 800 people named Tina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tina in 2025?
- Tina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Tina with classmates?
- Tina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with T, all years combined.
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