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Galina

#11,257 in 2025Girls' name

Calm

Galina has been given to 381 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,257 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Galina, 2025

1 in 414,000

Galina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Galina: meaning, origin, and history

Calm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Galina means

Galina means “calm”, associated with galḗnē.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Гали́на (Galína), from Ancient Greek γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm”), name of a Nereid and of early martyrs venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Galina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Galina is used in English, Czech, Estonian, Latvian and Slovak.

Galina comes through bg,ru Гали́на and Ancient Greek γαλήνη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Гали́на, Gaļina and Галина.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Galina is pronounced [ˈɡalɪna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 381 girls were recorded with the name Galina between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2014; its best national rank was #6,947 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,545 in 2020 to #11,257 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,136 in 2015 to #11,257 in 2025.

How common is Galina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,257
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Galina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Galina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Galinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Galina was born before 2007 — so the typical Galina is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
381
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Galina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,894
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−712
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,121
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 2014 (15)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,947
1999

Spellings of Galina

Galina is not the most common spelling — Gina is, with 14.8% against Galina's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Galina is used

Across 1910–2025, Galina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 800,639 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Galina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Galina around the world

Where Galina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1924–2025
    #6,668
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1988
    #649
    in 1988
  • South Australia
    1950–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Galina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,257
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 712
Best rank ever
#6,947
1999
Peak year
2014
15 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
381
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Galina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Galina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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