Lina (/ˈliːnə/ LEE-nə) is an international feminine given name, mostly the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Adelina, Angelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Catalina, Emelina, Evangelina, Evelina, Karolina, Italina, Marcelina, Melina, Nikolina, Paulina, Rosalina, and Žaklina.[1][2]
Apart from that it can be the feminine form of Lin, Lino, Linos (Λῖνος) or Linus.[3]
Languages of origin include: Arabic, English, Italian, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. In 2011 and since it was one of the most popular given female names in Germany.[4] Lina has been one of the most popular female names in France since 2019. In other languages, such as Danish and Norwegian, the form Line is more common.
Lina has a different meaning in different languages for example "Lina" in Arabic refers to a "small, young palm tree", or the classical plural meaning of "palm trees". It is a direct Quranic Arabic (Classical Arabic) name. Figuratively, Lina means "tender" or "tenderness" and "delicate".
In Chinese, li (丽) means "pretty" and na (娜) means "elegant".
It can be seen as the Greek name Lina (Λίνα). In Greek, it means "sunlight", and also refers to the olive crown used for a hero.[citation needed] Otherwise it can be connected to línon (λίνον) "flax".
In Kurdish, it means "cascade falls" (تئاڤگەی بچوک).
In India it refers to Goddess Lakshmi, the Goddess of fortune, good luck, riches and splendor.
Lina is the female form of Linas, a common given name among people of Lithuanian descent. It can also be construed as a rare feminine form of Linus.
In Persian, it means "light, a ray of sunlight, beautiful girl".
In the Russian language, Lina (Ли́на) is a diminutive form of the female name Avelina.[5]