Gina (given name)

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Not to be confused with Jina (Korean name) or Giona (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 ), 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[]

Pseudonym[]

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 British prison drama series Shortland Street
  • 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

See also[]

  • Gina (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Gina
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