Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Geena is a variant of Gina. Gina has been associated with Italian and English naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Geena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,554
- 0 boys · 1,554 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 163 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 163 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,661 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geena’s family of names
Geena has a related form in Gina. In English usage, Geena has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Gina.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Geena
- Geena DavisAmerican actress (born 1956)
- Geena RoceroFilipino modelborn 1983
- Geena GallAmerican middle distance runnerborn 1987
- Meini CheungHong Kong actressborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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