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Halina

#4,292 in 2025Girls' name

Calm

Halina has been given to 1,056 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #4,292 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Halina, 2025

1 in 100,000

Halina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halina: meaning, origin, and history

Calm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Halina means

Halina means “calm”, associated with galḗnē.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Belarusian Галі́на (Halína), from Ancient Greek γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm”), name of a Nereid and of early martyrs venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Halina is used in English and Polish.

Halina comes through Belarusian Галі́на and Ancient Greek γαλήνη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Галі́на and Galina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Halina is pronounced /xaˈli.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,056 girls were recorded with the name Halina between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,440 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,697 in 2020 to #4,292 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,030 in 2015 to #4,292 in 2025.

How common is Halina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,292
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halina 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halina was born before 2002 — so the typical Halina is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
973
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Halina 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
+649
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,405
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+738
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (33)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,440
1952

Spellings of Halina

Halina is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 6.7% against Halina's 0.10%.

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 Halina is used

Across 1910–2025, Halina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 927,591 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Halina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Halina around the world

Where Halina 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1924–2025
    #2,094
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1946–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Halina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,292
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,405
Best rank ever
#2,440
1952
Peak year
2025
33 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,056
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Halina

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

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Sibling names for Halina

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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