MEANING & HISTORY
What does Talina mean?
Talina is explicitly documented as a clipping of Catalina in Cebuano. The source establishes the exact longer name rather than leaving the relationship to a guess from the ending.
Catalina belongs to the Catherine family, whose older etymology should not be reduced automatically to a certain pure meaning. The local shortening is already a useful historical formation independent of that deeper debate.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
Clipping of Catalina.
a diminutive of the female given name Catalina
Wiktionary: Talina (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Talina in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Talina
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Alina♀Short form of Adelina, Albina, or other -alina names
- Halina♀Calm; Slavic form in the Galina family
- Taling♀Familiar Catalina with a local ending
- Carina♀Dear or beloved in the Latin-name account
- Catalina♀Spanish form of Katherine
- Janina♀God is gracious; a John-family feminine form
- Jolina♀Namesake formation associated with Jolina Magdangal
- Karina♀Karin-family form, or a spelling of Carina
What rhymes with Talina?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Talina further
Follow the sources
- Wiktionary contributors — Talina (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Catalina (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Consulted exact linked-base name formation; original dictionary separately attributed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wiktionary contributors — Catalina (English) (opens in a new tab)
Consulted exact linked-base name formation; original dictionary separately attributed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wiktionary contributors — Catalina (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Consulted exact linked-base name formation; original dictionary separately attributed CC BY-SA 4.0.