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I have Sina in my own database as a short form of names ending in -sina, like Rosina or Teresina, used in German-speaking countries. I took that info from the "Duden Vornamen", a reliable German given name book.

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Might well be that the Scandinavian Sina is such a short form as well.

Sina is a fairly common female name in Scandinavia

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I disagree. Sina is certainly not common in Sweden. There is only 78 women named Sina in Sweden (and 227 men).

First of all, like CN said, not at all common here in Sweden.

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From my genealogy (it was a somewhat more common name some centuries ago), I've gathered that it was often a short form of Eufrosina, ie Euphrosyne.

Is it possible that Sina is a variant of Signe?