Given name
Tiina
Tiina is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Tiina is a short form of Christina. In Estonian usage, Tiina is a short form of KRISTIINA.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tiina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38
- 0 boys · 38 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 8 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 6 in 1966. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 307 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.
Tiina’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Tiina is a short form of Christina. In Finnish usage, Tiina has a conventional equivalent in the German form Tina. In Estonian usage, Tiina is a short form of KRISTIINA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tiina has relatives in 3 languages.
5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tiina
- Tiina LillakFinnish javelin thrower (born 1961)
- Tiina Sanila-AikioSkolt Sámi politician, reindeer herder, teacher, and rock singerborn 1983
- Tiina LymiFinnish actress, film director and writerborn 1971
- Tiina RinneFinnish actress1929–2021
- Tiina RosenbergSwedish academicborn 1958
- Tiina RaevaaraFinnish writerborn 1979
- Tiina EloFinnish politicianborn 1971
- Tiina TauraiteEstonian actress (born 1976)
- Tiina IntelmannEstonian ambassador (born 1963)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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