Gina is the Italian diminutive of names ending in -gina (such as Regina, queen, or Giorgina) — also independently used in Hebrew (גינה, gardener). A top-100 US baby name from 1962 to 1974, peaking at #75 in 1971. Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023) — *Italian actress and one of the highest-paid international stars of the 1950s-1960s; Beat the Devil (1953), Trapeze (1956), Solomon and Sheba (1959), Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968, David di Donatello Best Actress). Worked as a photojournalist later in life — her La Mia Italia (1973) exhibited at the Venice Biennale; her 1990s portraits of Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger, and Salvador Dalí brought her recognition as an art photographer. Gina Rodriguez (born 1984) — Golden Globe Best Actress in TV Drama for Jane the Virgin (2014) — the first Latina to win that category. Gina Torres (Suits). Gina Carano (The Mandalorian). Gina Prince-Bythewood — director of Love & Basketball, The Old Guard, The Woman King*.
Featured throughout 20th-century Italian and American cinema.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gina reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.