# Gina (given name)

Gina (occasional variants Geena, Gena, Jena, 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 (1927−2023), 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 Aitken (born 1993), Scottish curler
* Gina Apostol, Philippines-born writer
* Gina Arnold, American rock critic
* Gina Austin (Georgina), American model
* Gina Bachauer (1913–1976), Greek classical pianist
* Gina Ballantyne (1919–1973), Australian poet
* 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 (born 1982), American actress and mixed martial artist
* Gina Cerminara, American author
* Gina Choi (지나), Korean-Canadian Singer
* Gina Crampton (born 1991), New Zealand netball international player
* Gina Cruz Blackledge (born 1969), Mexican politician
* Geena Davis, American actress
* Gina Din (born 1961), Kenyan businesswoman
* 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 Gleason, American guitarist
* 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* Gina Grant, American who was admitted to Harvard but then had her admission rescinded when it was known she had killed her mother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 Gray, Native American artist and activist
* Gina Green, American Urban Gospel singer
* Gina Guidi, American boxer
* Gina Haley (Linda Georgina), American singer-songwriter
* Gina Hart, American comics artist
* Gina Haspel (born 1956), American intelligence officer and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
* Gina Hecht, American actress
* Gina Holden, Canadian actress
* Gina Jeffreys, Australian country singer
* Gina Johnsen, American politician from Michigan
* Gina Keatley, Celebrity Chef
* Gina Kirschenheiter, American television personality
* Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
* Gina Kolata, American science journalist
* Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and political activist
* Gina La Piana, Hispanic-American actress and pop singer
* Gina Liano, Australian barrister and television personality
* Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
* Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and politician
* Gina Mantegna, American actress
* Gina Maria Adenauer, race car driver
* Gina McKee, English actress
* Gina Montalto (2003–2018), one of the 17 victims who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
* 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 Marie Rzucidlo, American mountaineer
* 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 Gillotti, fictional character from comic strip series Dennis the Menace
* Gina Gold, fictional character in the British drama The Bill
* Gina Gray, fictional character. Wife of Michael Gray from the BBC drama Peaky Blinders
* Gina Guerra, fictional character in the video game Far Cry New Dawn
* 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 Porter, fictional character in the television series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
* Gina Roma, fictional character in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
* Gina Rossi, fictional character in the New Zealand medical drama series Shortland Street
* Gina Russo, fictional character in the American medical drama Nip/Tuck
* Gina Vendetti, fictional character in The Simpsons.
* 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
* Gina McClearly, identical twin sister to Leni McClearly in the Netflix miniseries Echoes