Lina
Lina is an international feminine given name, mostly the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Adelina, Angelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Catalina, Emelina, Evangelina, Evelina, Karolina, Italina, Marcelina, Melina, Nikolina, Paulina, Rosalina, and Žaklina.
Apart from that it can be the feminine form of Lin, Lino, Linos or Linus.
Languages of origin include: Arabic, English, Italian, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
In 2011 and since it was one of the most popular given female names in Germany. Lina has been one of the most popular female names in France since 2019. In other languages, such as Danish and Norwegian, the form Line is more common.
Lina has a different meaning in different languages for example "Lina" in Arabic refers to a "small, young palm tree", or the classical plural meaning of "palm trees". It is a direct Quranic Arabic name. Figuratively, Lina means "tender" or "tenderness" and "delicate".
In Chinese, li means "pretty" and na means "elegant".
It can be seen as the Greek name Lina. In Greek, it means "sunlight", and also refers to the olive crown used for a hero. Otherwise it can be connected to línon "flax".
In Kurdish, it means "cascade falls".
In India it refers to Goddess Lakshmi, the Goddess of fortune, good luck, riches and splendor.
Lina is the female form of Linas, a common given name among people of Lithuanian descent. It can also be construed as a rare feminine form of Linus.
In Persian, it means "light, a ray of sunlight, beautiful girl".
In the Russian language, Lina is a diminutive form of the female name Avelina.
Given name at first
- Lina Ahmed, Egyptian hurdler
- Lina Allemano, Canadian musician
- Lina Andersson, Swedish cross-country skier
- Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian track and field athlete
- Lina Annab, Jordanian businessperson, politician and the previous
- Lina Aristodimou, Cypriot alpine skier
- Lina Attalah, Egyptian media figure and journalist
- Lina Maria Becker, German politician
- Lina Beecher, American inventor and roller coaster engineer
- Lina Bejjani, Lebanese sprinter
- Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and lecturer
- Lina Bertucci, American artist
- Lina Bo Bardi, Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect
- Lina Boqvist, Swedish professional golfer
- Lina Boussaha, French professional footballer
- Lina Braknytė, Lithuanian actress
- Lina Bruna Rasa, Italian operatic soprano
- Lina Bryans, Australian modernist painter
- Lina Buffolente, Italian comic artist and illustrator
- Lina Carstens, German actress
- Lina Chartrand, Canadian writer
- Lina Chatkevičiūtė, Lithuanian ballroom dancer
- Lina Cheryazova, Uzbek freestyle skier
- Lina Choueiri, Lebanese linguist
- Lina Condes, Ukrainian artist
- Lina Dencik, British social scientist
- Lina Domberg, Swedish footballer
- Lina Dorado, Colombian contemporary artist and filmmaker
- Lina Dussan, Colombian rhythmic gymnast
- Lina Eckenstein, British polymath and historian
- Lina Zahr Eddine, Lebanese news presenter and talk show host
- Lina El Arabi
- Lina El Tannir,, Egyptian squash player
- Lina Englund, Swedish actress and musician
- Lina Engren, Swedish bobsledder
- Lina Esco, American actress, producer, director and activist
- Lina Eve, Australian artist, adoption activist, singer/songwriter, photographer and filmmaker
- Lina Fedorova, Russian pair skater
- Lina Franziska Fehrmann, German artist model
- Lina Flor, nickname of Carolina Flores-Trinidad, Filipina writer
- Lina Flórez, Colombian hurdle athlete
- Lina Fruzzetti
- Lina Gjorcheska, Macedonian tennis player
- Lina Glushko, Israeli tennis player
- Lina Granados, Colombian footballer
- Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė, Lithuanian sprint athlete
- Lina Guérin, French rugby union player
- Lina Haag, German anti-Fascist activist
- Lina Hahne, Swedish beauty queen and Miss Sweden 2007
- Lina Hawyani al-Hasan, Syrian novelist, journalist and writer
- Lina Frank Hecht, American philanthropists
- Lina Hedlund, Swedish singer and member of Alcazar
- Lina Heleika, Egyptian rhythmic gymnast
- Lina Herasymenko, Ukrainian archer
- Lina Heydrich, German Nazi and wife of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
- Lina Hidalgo, American politician
- Lina Higiro
- Lina Hurtig, Swedish footballer
- Lina Jacques-Sébastien, French sprint athlete
- Lina Johansson, Swedish former competitive figure skater
- Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer
- Lina Jamil Karam, American electrical and computer engineer
- Lina Khalifeh, Jordanian black belt taekwondo champion and activist against sexual harassment in Jordan
- Lina Khan, English-born American jurist
- Lina Khelif, Algerian footballer
- Lina Khoury, Lebanese theatre director, writer, producer, and educator
- Lina Krhlikar, Slovenian handball player
- Lina Knudsen, Danish curler
- Lina Kostenko, Ukrainian poet and writer
- Lina Kozomara, Swiss freestyle skier
- Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian retired tennis player
- Lina Kuduzović, Slovenian singer
- Lina Länsberg, Swedish mixed martial artist
- Lina Lazaar, Tunisian art critic
- Lina Leandersson, Swedish actress
- Lina Lehtovaara, Finnish football referee
- Lina Ljungblom, Swedish ice hockey player
- Lina Lossen, German stage and film actress
- Lina Lundqvist, Swedish footballer
- Lina Loh, Singaporean politician
- Lina Magaia, Mozambican writer, journalist and war veteran
- Lina Magull, German footballer.
- Lina Makhul, Palestinian singer-songwriter
- Lina Mangiacapre, Italian playwright and filmmaker
- Lina Marengo, Italian actress
- Lina Marín, Mexican actress
- Lina Marulanda, Colombian television personality and model
- Lina Mathon-Blanchet, Haitian pianist, music teacher and composer
- Lina Medina, the youngest confirmed mother in medical history
- Lina Meruane, Chilean writer and professor
- Lina Mittner, Swiss alpine skier
- Lina María Moreno Mejía, Colombian First Lady
- Lina Montes, Cuban actress
- Lina Morgenstern, German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist
- Lina Musharbash, British journalist
- Līna Mūze, Latvian track and field athlete
- Lina Murr Nehmé, French-Lebanese author
- Lina Ng, Singaporean actress and host
- Lina Nilsson, Swedish retired footballer
- Lina Nilsson, American biomedical engineer
- Lina Nyberg, Swedish jazz singer and composer
- Lina M. Obeid, American physician and cancer researcher
- Lina Olsson Rosenberg, Swedish handball player
- Lina Pagliughi, Italian-American opera singer
- Lina Pereira, Brazilian singer
- Lina Persson, Swedish orienteering competitor
- Lina Pires de Campos, Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer
- Lina Pizzolongo, Canadian vocal coach and concert pianist
- Lina Polito, Italian actress
- Lina Puerta, American mixed media artist
- Lina Qostal, Moroccan tennis player
- Lina Rafn, Danish female singer, songwriter and producer in the band Infernal
- Lina Ramann, German writer and teacher
- Lina Rivas, Colombian weightlifter
- Lina Rodriguez, Canadian filmmaker
- Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez, Cuban politician
- Lina Ron, Venezuelan political leader
- Lina Rosales, Spanish film and television actress
- Lina Šaltytė-Masilionė, Lithuanian female rower
- Lina Santiago, American singer and musician
- Lina Sarmiento, Filipino police officer
- Lina Sastri, Italian actress and singer
- Lina Penna Sattamini, Brazilian interpreter
- Lina Scott Gatty, British politician
- Lina Shabib, Jordanian politician
- Lina Sontag, German basketball player
- Lina Stančiūtė, Lithuanian tennis player
- Lina Stergiou, Greek architect
- Lina Stern, Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist
- Lina Larissa Strahl, German singer-songwriter and actress
- Lina Strand, Swedish orienteering competitor
- Lina Nerli Taviani, Italian costume designer
- Lina Teoh, Malaysian actress, TV Host, model and Miss Malaysia World 1998
- Lina Thomsgård, Swedish columnist, DJ, and PR consultant
- Lina Trivedi, American entrepreneur, author, educator and public servant
- Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician
- Lina van de Mars, German TV moderator, motor athlete and drummer
- Lina Iris Viktor, British-Liberian visual artist
- Lina Volonghi, Italian actress
- Lina von Perbandt, German painter
- Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
- Lina Wester, Swedish ice hockey
- Lina Woiwode, Austrian actress
- Lina Wolff, Swedish novelist and short story writer
- Lina Yakubova, American film producer and writer
- Lina Yakupova, Russian footballer
- Lina Yegros, Spanish film actress
Nickname
- Lina stagename of Shelina Wade, American recording artist
- Lina, stagename of Lee Ji-yeon South Korean singer who is a member of The Grace
- Lina, nickname of Savelina Fanene, who is better known as Nia Jax, American professional wrestler and model
- Lina Basquette, whose birthname is Lena Copeland Baskette, American actress
- Lina Bo Bardi whose birthname was Achillina Bo, Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect
- Lina Cavalieri, whose birthname is Natalina Cavalieri, Italian operatic soprano, actress, and monologist
- Lina Espina-Moore, whose birthname was Austregelina Espina, Filipina writer
- Lina Gennari, whose birthname was Carolina Gennari, Italian actress and operetta singer
- Lina Hähnle, whose name is Emilie Karoline Hähnle, German conservationist
- Lina Jonn, whose birth name is Carolina Johnsson,, Swedish professional photographer
- Lina Joy, converted name of Azlina Jailani, Malay convert
- Lina Loos, whose birthname was Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler, Austrian actress and writer
- Lina Mayer, whose birthname is Karolína Majerníková, Slovak singer and dancer
- Lina Merlin, nickname of Angelina Merlin, Italian politician
- Lina Morgan, stage name of María de los Ángeles López Segovia OAXS MML, Spanish film, theatre and television actress and showgirl
- Lina Nikolakopoulou, whose name is Evangelia Nikolakopoulou , Greek lyricist
- Lina Ortega, nickname of Evelina Ortega, American politician
- Lina Pasini-Vitale, stagename of Carolina Pasini-Vitale,, Italian soprano
- Lina Poletti, nickname of Cordula Poletti, Italian writer, poet, playwright and feminist
- Lina Prokofiev, whose birthname is Carolina Codina, Spanish singer
- Lina Radke, nickname of Karoline Radke-Batschauer, German track and field athlete
- Lina Romay, whose birthname is Rosa María Almirall Martínez. Spanish actress
- Lina Romay, whose name is Maria Elena Romay, Mexican-American actress and singer
- Lina Sandell, whose birthname is Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg, Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns
- Lina Salomé, stage name of Luz de Peña Matos Estévez, Cuban-born Mexican dancer and actress
- Lina Spies, Carellina Pieternella Spies, Afrikaans poet and academic
- Lina Waterfield, nickname of Caroline Lucie Waterfield, French-born, English journalist
- Lina, a nail stylist NPC and antagonist from the video game ''Dress to Impress''