Galina

given name · Russian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Galina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Russian and Lithuanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "silent, peaceful".

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 56◐
  • RURussia1 in 74
  • MDMoldova1 in 88

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈318K ●

across 13 countries

#61 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
248 ●

9.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 88 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

ГалинаCyrillic · Russian●14M records
HalinaLatin · Polish●1.1M records
ᲒალინაGeorgian · Georgian●7.3K records
กาลนาThai · Thai●24 records
ԳալինաArmenian · Armenian●15 records
갈리나Hangul · Korean●1 records
ΓαληναGreek · Greek●0 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Галина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 9 more, Halina in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, Galena in US United States and Halyna in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

"silent, peaceful."

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Galina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1814,034,6073.1M rec.—#7Галина192
UA Ukraine#175,687,2245.6M rec.—listedГалина84
PL Poland#50226,656△12K rec.1 in 169227KHalina126
TR Türkiye#84587,4354.8K rec.——Галина20
BG Bulgaria#4280,98812K rec.—21KГалина121
KG Kyrgyzstan#2266,50417K rec.——Галина23
BY Belarus#2940,7688.9K rec.—23Галина43
MD Moldova#2138,222△1.4K rec.1 in 8838KGalina36
LT Lithuania#6319,505△733 rec.1 in 14020KGalina60
EE Estonia#1715,3181.1K rec.—7.1KGalina36
UZ Uzbekistan#21811,293797 rec.——Галина28
DE Germany—10,58310K rec.—1Galina127

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Russian123K28%
  • Lithuanian60K13%
  • English45K10%
  • Romanian40K9%
  • Bulgarian37K8%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Russian123,21928%
Lithuanian59,65613%
English44,58810%
Romanian39,8929%
Bulgarian36,6208%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Galina is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name28K records spelled Galina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Russia, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gaļina

  • French given name8.2K records spelled Galina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Russia, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Gaļina

  • a separate given name5.4K records spelled Galina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Also written Galìna, Gaļina, Galiña, Gal̦ina

  • Hungarian given name716 records spelled Galina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Slovenia, Hungary, United States

    Also written Galiné, Gaļina, Galine

  • Hebrew given name375 records spelled Galina7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, Latvia, Russia

    Also written גלינה, Galena, Halyna, Gallina, Galyna

  • a separate given name149 records spelled Galina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Norway

    Also written Gaļina

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Galina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Гали́на (Galína).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, gr. To:Alvy) < adj. yaXtvk senin" 1. Galina f. (17 A III 172) fiica lui Roman Plesea. 2. Galenia mona. Galinicu v. Calinic 4. Galion v. G a l i a n 2. Galls, -esti v. Galie I 6. Galit, -a v. Galie I 8. Galsa v. Galie I 10. Galu, -1 v. Galie I 1.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In Swedish, Galina är ett ryskt namn av grekiskt ursprung. Det kommer från grekiskans galḗnē ’ro, stillhet’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, calm; see Helen; Russian

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Probably from Greek galéné ‘calm’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05101519701980199020002010202015 · 2014

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Galina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19705
19765
19825
19835
19855
19869
19876
19896
199010
19919
199311
199410
199510
19978
199810
199914
20006
20016
200211
200313
20047
20057
20068
200712
200811
20097
20107
201110
201213
201311
201415
201512
20166
20176
201811
201910
20209
202112
20229
202311
202415
20258

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Halyna Kuzmenko, b. 1896Galina Ulanova, b. 1909Galina Ustvolskaya, b. 1919Halina Czerny-Stefańska, b. 1922Galina Vishnevskaya, b. 1926Galina Zybina, b. 1931Galina Jovovich, b. 1950Galina Čisťakovová, b. 1962Halyna Hutchins, b. 1979Galena, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 80 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Galina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—38K#26
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—20K#35
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—20K#35
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#2,372
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—7.1K#7
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—7.1K#6
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.5K#3,983
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2K#364
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262K#364
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,853
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.7K#1,001
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.7K#1,208

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 475 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Galina?
We estimate roughly 318 thousand people bear Galina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Galina have the most bearers?
Galina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled галина.
How common is Galina compared with other names?
In Russia, Galina is the 18th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Galina a male or female name?
Galina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Galina mean?
Recorded meaning: "silent, peaceful."
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Galina” — the 18th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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