Robina Qureshi is a human rights campaigner from Scotland. She is a critic of the asylum policies of the United Kingdom, and has campaigned to stop inhumane treatment and close detention centres for asylum seekers.
Robina Higgins-Haight (1915 – 1990) was one of Canada's best female athletes in the 1930s.From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Higgins excelled in the javelin, shot put, and ball throw competition. In the javelin, she set a Canadian record throw of 131 feet 11.75 inches (40.2273 m) in 1938. This mark stood until 1952. In a 1935 ball throw event, she set a record of 222 feet 2 inches (67.72 m), a distance that was unsurpassed until 1947.During her brief career, Higgins won nine national titles and was given the Velma Springstead Trophy as the country's outstanding female athlete in 1937 Higgins also won the gold medal in the javelin event at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. She was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame.She died in Winnipeg in 1990 and posthumously inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
I think this is a lovely name! Nice feminine form for Robin or Robert. These Scottish people slap -ine and -ina on male names for a reason. To give women personalities that allow them to be the female versions of men :)!
My name is Robina. And I am pretty happy with it cuase it makes me feel sort of powerful. I would love if someone could actually explain me about its origin. Well a classmate of mine once told me about a lady-warrior named Robina. IS it true?
This was also commonly used in Scotland, following the Scottish trend of adding -ina to feminize male names, e. G. Jamesina, Dolina, Lachina. If you search the IGI, the vast majority of Robina's are Scottish, not English. [noted -ed]