Halyna
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halyna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Slavic (Ukrainian Галина (Halyna), etc), from Ancient Greek; Doublet of Halina, Galina, and Galyna.
- 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 ●
- #61 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 248 ●
- 1 in 88 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
9.2M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
6 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, Halina in PL Poland, CZ Czechia and Galena in US United States.
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●
From Slavic (Ukrainian Галина (Halyna), etc), from Ancient Greek; Doublet of Halina, Galina, and Galyna.
Sources 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #18 | 14,034,607 | 3.1M rec. | — | #7 | Галина | 192 |
| UA Ukraine | #17 | 5,687,224 | 5.6M rec. | — | listed | Галина | 84 |
| PL Poland | #50 | 226,656△ | 12K rec. | 1 in 169 | 227K | Halina | 126 |
| TR Türkiye | #845 | 87,435 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Галина | 20 |
| BG Bulgaria | #42 | 80,988 | 12K rec. | — | 21K | Галина | 121 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #22 | 66,504 | 17K rec. | — | — | Галина | 23 |
| BY Belarus | #29 | 40,768 | 8.9K rec. | — | 23 | Галина | 43 |
| MD Moldova | #21 | 38,222△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 88 | 38K | Galina | 36 |
| LT Lithuania | #63 | 19,505△ | 733 rec. | 1 in 140 | 20K | Galina | 60 |
| EE Estonia | #17 | 15,318 | 1.1K rec. | — | 7.1K | Galina | 36 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #218 | 11,293 | 797 rec. | — | — | Галина | 28 |
| DE Germany | — | 10,583 | 10K rec. | — | 1 | Galina | 127 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian982K86%
- Polish141K12%
- Spanish6.4K1%
- Czech2.6K1%
- English2.5K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 982,301 | 86% |
| Polish | 141,021 | 12% |
| Spanish | 6,426 | 1% |
| Czech | 2,625 | 1% |
| English | 2,476 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Halyna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 13 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 66 |
| 2024 | 77 |
| 2025 | 88 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Halyna Kuzmenkob. 1896FRUkrainian anarchist (1897–1978)
- Galina Ulanovab. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet ballet dancer (1910-1998)
- Galina Ustvolskayab. 1919RUnot in their usual nameRussian composer (1919–2006)
- Halina Czerny-Stefańskab. 1922PLnot in their usual namePolish musician (1922–2001)
- Galina Vishnevskayab. 1926RUnot in their usual nameRussian soprano opera singer and recitalist
- Galina Zybinab. 1931RUnot in their usual nameRussian shot-putter, javelin thrower, and coach (1931–2024)
- Galina Jovovichb. 1950USnot in their usual nameRussian-American actress
- Galina Čisťakovováb. 1962RUnot in their usual nameSoviet long jumper and triple jumper
- Halyna Hutchinsb. 1979UAUkrainian-American cinematographer and investigative journalist
- Galenab. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 113 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Halyna?
- We estimate roughly 318 thousand people bear Halyna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Halyna have the most bearers?
- Halyna is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled галина.
- How common is Halyna compared with other names?
- In Russia, Halyna is the 18th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Halyna a male or female name?
- Halyna 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 Halyna mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Slavic (Ukrainian Галина (Halyna), etc), from Ancient Greek; Doublet of Halina, Galina, and Galyna.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halynaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Halyna” — the 18th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.