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Girl's nameOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: steady

RinaIn Hebrew: רינה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: רִנָּהRomanization: rína

Rina (Hebrew: רינה) is a girl's name of Hebrew origin. 8,674 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 65 girls and ranked #246. Its peak year was 1951, with 266 babies.

People in Israel
8,674
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
65
rank #246
Peak year
1951
266 babies
USA, 2025
79
rank #2,298

Writing and saying Rina

In Hebrew letters the name is רינה, read right to left. Rina is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "rína" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a female given name, Rina

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Rina by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Rina: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Rina in English-speaking countries

Rina in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202579#2,2981980 (90)
United Kingdom20256#3,7762012 (16)
England and Wales20256#3,7042012 (16)
Alberta20254#9821981 (6)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Rina has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Rina

How do you write Rina in Hebrew?

Rina is written רינה in Hebrew (with vowel points: רִנָּה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "rína".

How many people in Israel are named Rina?

8,674 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name רינה: 8,667 women and 7 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Rina a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a girl's name: 99.9% of the people named רינה are women.

What does the name Rina mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a female given name, Rina"

Is Rina used outside Israel?

The name Rina appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 79 girls were given it in 2025 (#2,298), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 6 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.