Gina (given name)
Gina (occasional variants Geena, Gena, Jeana, Jeanna) is a feminine given name, in origin a hypocoristic form of names ending in -gina (by metanalysis of the latinate feminine suffix -ina), such as Luigina, Regina or Georgina, also of Virginia or Eugenia.
The short form was popularized in the 1950s by the actress Gina Lollobrigida (b. 1927), whose birth name is Luigina. Lollobrigida became famous in 1953, from which year popularity of the given name Gina in the United States rose steeply, reaching a peak at rank 54 in 1967. Since the 1970s, it has declined steadily, falling below rank 1,000 in 2009.
People called Gina
- Gina Apostol, Philippines-born writer
- Gina Arnold, American rock critic
- Gina Austin (Georgina), American model
- Gina Bachauer, Greek classical pianist
- Gina Barreca (Regina), American humorist and professor
- Gina Beck, English actress and singer
- Gina Bellman, British actress
- Gina Birch, British punk musician, founder of The Raincoats
- Gina Bold, London-born artist of Greek and Scottish background
- Gina Breedlove, American singer and stage actress
- Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter
- Gina Cerminara, American author
- Gina Choi (지나), Korean-Canadian Singer
- Gina Cunningham (born 1955), American multidisciplinary artist
- Geena Davis, American actress
- Gina Ferris Wilkins, American novelist
- Gina Ford, British writer on parenting methods
- Gina Gallego, American television actress
- Gina Gaston, American news presenter
- Gina Gershon, American movie actress
- Gina Glocksen, American singer
- Gina Gogean, Romanian gymnast
- Gina Goldberg, Finnish model, actress and singer
- Gina Grant, American who was admitted to Harvard but then had her admission rescinded when it was known she had killed her mother
- Gina Green, American Urban Gospel singer
- Gina Guidi, American boxer
- Gina Haley (Linda Georgina), American singer-songwriter
- Gina Hart, American comics artist
- Gina Haspel, American intelligence officer and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Gina Hecht, American actress
- Gina Holden, Canadian actress
- Gina Jeffreys, Australian country singer
- Gina Keatley, Celebrity Chef
- Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
- Gina Kolata, American science journalist
- Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and political activist
- Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
- Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and politician
- Gina Mamidakis, Greek businesswoman
- Gina Mantegna, American actress
- Gina Maria Adenauer, race car driver
- Gina McKee, English actress
- Gina Nemo, American actress
- Gina Pareño, Filipino-American actress
- Gina Philips, American television actress
- Gina Prince-Bythewood, American film director
- Gina Raimondo, American politician businesswoman
- Gina Ravera, American actress
- Gina Riley, Australian actor, writer, singer and comedian
- Gina Rinehart, chair of Hancock Prospecting
- Gina Rodriguez, American actress
- Gina Sanmiguel, Ecuadorian politician
- Gina Schock (Regina), drummer for The Go-Go's
- Gina Sigstad, Norwegian cross-country skier
- Gina Silva, American newscaster based in Los Angeles
- Gina Stile, American rock guitarist
- Gina Swainson, American model
- Gina Tognoni, American soap opera actress
- Gina Tolleson, American model
- Gina Torres, American television and movie actress
- Gina Tuttle, American actress and voice-over artist
- Gina Wilkinson, Canadian actress, director, and playwright
- Gina Yashere, British comedian
- Countess Georgina von Wilczek, "Gina", Princess of Liechtenstein, the mother of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
- Gina, lead member of Irish pop group Gina, Dale Haze and the Champions
Pseudonym
- Gina Lynn, American pornographic actress
- Gina Wild, stage name of Michaela Schaffrath, German pornographic actress
Fictional characters
- Gina Buchanan, fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap River City
- Gina Calabrese, fictional police detective on the television series Miami Vice
- Gina Cavalli, antagonist in the video game R:Racing Evolution
- Gina Cross, fictional character in the Half-Life series of computer games
- Gina Gambarro, fictional character from the television series Ugly Betty
- Gina Gold, fictional character in the British drama The Bill
- Gina Inviere, fictional character on Battlestar Galactica
- Gina Jefferson, fictional character in Sesame Street
- Gina Kincaid, fictional character in the television series Beverly Hills 90210
- Gina Linetti, fictional character in the American television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Gina Patrick, fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Gina Roma, fictional character in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Gina Rossi, fictional character in the British prison drama series Bad Girls
- Gina Russo, fictional character in the American medical drama Nip/Tuck
- Gina Von Amberg, fictional character in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Gina Waters-Payne, fictional character in the American television series Martin
- Gina, a fictional engine seen in Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
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