Meaning and background
The story behind Lupina
Lupina has a defensible Italian-word interpretation, but the exact spelling matters. Italian lupino is an adjective connected with wolves, and Treccani actually illustrates its feminine form in the phrase fame lupina, “ravenous hunger”. The ordinary Italian noun for a she-wolf is instead lupa. A historical tradition of Lupina as a personal name has not been independently established, so its animal association should be labelled as a word connection.
- Meaning
- As an Italian adjective, lupina is the feminine of lupino, “relating to a wolf”. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Lupina appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
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