Given name & surname

Cina

Cina is a feminine given name. It is used in Czech and Cebuano.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Cina comes from Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Cebuano usage, Cina is a diminutive of EUFROCINA. In Cebuano usage, Cina is a short form of EUFROCINA.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Cina through the years

Babies since 1880
114
0 boys · 114 girls
Most popular year
1964
10 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Cina in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1953–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 319 as a first name in 2020; 842 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Cina’s family of names

In Cebuano usage, Cina is a diminutive of EUFROCINA. In Cebuano usage, Cina is a short form of EUFROCINA.

Walk Cina’s family in the name graph

CinaEufrocinaCinna

The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

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Italian

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French

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“from the place of healing and miracles”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Cina’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.