Lina

Where Lina comes from

Short form of any female name ending in -lina, such as Angelina, Carolina, Evelina. It can also be construed as a rare feminine form of Linus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lina
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #219 among girls with 49 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1930
    Lina Kostenko born
    Ukrainian writer
  3. 1933
    Lina Medina born
    Peruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, occasionally used in English.
Namesakes
  • Lina Kostenko · Ukrainian writer, born 1930
  • Lina Medina · Peruvian woman, youngest confirmed mother in medical history, 1933–2015
  • Lina Stern · Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist, 1878–1968
  • Lina Romay · Spanish actress, 1954–2012
  • Lina Hurtig · Swedish association football player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.