*RELATIVES*
*NON-BELIEVERS*
*FAMOUS GINAS*
*FICTIONAL GINAS*
*SONGS FOR GINA*
***GOLD STANDARD***
(“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 -ina), 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 State rose steeply, reaching a peak at #54 in 1967)
(since the 1970s, it has declined steadily, falling below #1,000 in 2009)