[1] Teena and Tena are modern English variant spellings of Tina.
The hypocorism Tina or Teena is also sometimes derived from the English word “tiny”, as was the case for American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer Tina Brooks (1932 – 1974), who was born Harold, or from the English slang term “teeny”, referring to a person who is of insignificant size, as was the case for British Victorian Shakespeare scholar and philologist Teena Rochfort-Smith (1861 – 1883), who was born Mary.
In the Arabic language, Tīnah (تينة) is a word that means "fig".
[2] It is also the usual diminutive for the Georgian feminine name Tinatin.
In the United States, increased usage of the name has been attributed to characters in the 1939 American drama film The Old Maid and the 1942 American drama film Now, Voyager, and later to the 1955 hit song Tina Marie.
Austrian landscape painter
Tina Blau
(1845 – 1916) in the 1870s.
Italian actress
Tina Di Lorenzo
(born Concettina Di Lorenzo; 1872-1930), pictured in 1896.
Swiss physician and Jungian psychotherapist
Tina Keller-Jenny
(1887-1985), pictured in 1912.
Tina Modotti
(born Assunta Modotti Mondini; 1896 – 1942), pictured in 1924. Mondini was an Italian American photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.
Italian actress
Tina Lattanzi
(born Annunziata Costantini; 1897 – 1997), pictured in 1930.
Tina Onassis Niarchos
(born Athina Livanos; 1929 – 1974), English-born Greek-French socialite and shipping heiress.
American actress
Tina Louise
(nee Blacker; born 1934), pictured in 1964.
American singer
Tina Turner
(born Anna Mae Bullock; 1939 – 2023), pictured in 1970.
