Halina

given name · Polish · Latin script

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

Halina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gentle.

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●

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

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Galina in LT Lithuania, MD Moldova, GE Georgia and 10 more, Галина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 9 more, 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●

Gentle

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Halina 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●

  • Polish1.1M94%
  • English26K2%
  • Czech9.5K1%
  • German5.3K1%
  • Spanish4.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish1,148,23994%
English26,3262%
Czech9,5071%
German5,3071%
Spanish4,4881%

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◐

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

  • English given name38K records spelled Halina14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Haliñâ, Hålinå, Halína

  • Spanish given name11K records spelled Halina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hálina

  • French given name3.6K records spelled Halina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hãlina

  • Hindi given name2.1K records spelled Halina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written হালিনা

  • Finnish given name486 records spelled Halina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hälinä

  • Croatian given name401 records spelled Halina10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Халина, Khalina

49 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●

Halina 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 Swedish, Halina är en slavisk form av → Helena.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, im 2 0 . Jh. entlehnter weibl. Vom., dem wahrscheinlich eine polnische Ableitung von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Polish: of uncertain derivation. It seems to be a form of either GALINA or HELEN .

    as a word

  • In English, A transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Галі́на (Halína).

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

  • In Filipino, let's go! come along!

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

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●

010203040192019401960198020002020

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Halina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19155
19176
19187
19199
19206
19225
19248
19255
19299
19346
19366
194811
19508
19515
195219
195315
195416
195514
195610
19577
19588
19598
196010
19618
19629
196312
196411
19658
19665
196711
19687
19695
19706
19726
19736
19745
19758
19767
19776
19785
19806
198115
19826
19836
19859
198611
19886
19895
19907
199112
19936
199410
199514
199611
199711
199813
199913
200011
200127
200213
200327
200428
200514
200631
200730
200821
200926
201016
201122
201216
201321
201423
201527
201623
201721
201816
201919
202014
202124
202214
202323
202427
202533

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1915–2025. 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. 1896Halina Konopacka, b. 1900Halina Skibniewska, b. 1921Halina Czerny-Stefańska, b. 1922Halina Poświatowska, b. 1935Halina Górecka, b. 1938Halyna Zmiievska, b. 1946Halina Rasiakówna, b. 1951Halina Reijn, b. 1975Halyna Hutchins, b. 1979

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 55 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Halina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—227K#28
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026227K#28
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.9K#3,969
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.9K#378
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—955#424
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—955#417
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—847#1,905
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020544—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—474#2,608
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—282#11,084
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022245—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—245#21,979

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 372 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Halina?
We estimate roughly 318 thousand people bear Halina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Halina have the most bearers?
Halina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled галина.
How common is Halina compared with other names?
In Russia, Halina is the 18th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Halina a male or female name?
Halina 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 Halina mean?
Recorded meaning: Gentle
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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, “Halina” — the 18th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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