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.
Gina reduces to seven — the number of Italian queen.