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Kalina

#1,566 in 2025Girls' name

Viburnum tree

Kalina has been given to 4,288 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #1,566 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 171 recorded.

Babies named Kalina, 2025

1 in 24,600

Kalina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalina: meaning, origin, and history

Viburnum tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalina means

Kalina means “viburnum tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalina is used in Ingrian.

Kalina comes through Russian Каллиник.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Ingrian, Kalina is pronounced /ˈkɑlinɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,288 girls were recorded with the name Kalina between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 171 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,335 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,350 in 2020 to #1,566 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,835 in 2015 to #1,566 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kalina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,600
135 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,566
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,023 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalina 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,023 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalina was born before 2010 — so the typical Kalina is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,288
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (1,323).

Is Kalina 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
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−216
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+269
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2019 (171)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,335
2019

Spellings of Kalina

Kalina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 8.1% against Kalina's 0.34%.

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 Kalina is used

Across 2016–2025, Kalina was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 11,261 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 33,333).

318 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 5,556
  2. 2Illinois1 in 7,143
  3. 3California1 in 8,333
  4. 4Virginia1 in 9,091
  5. 5Ohio1 in 10,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 12,500
  8. 8New York1 in 12,500

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.

Kalina around the world

Where Kalina 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1931–2025
    #3,781
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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

Notable people named Kalina

People whose public names include Kalina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kalina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kalina. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kalyna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kalina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 216
Best rank ever
#1,335
2019
Peak year
2019
171 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,288
Count in 2025
135

Names similar to Kalina

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

KaleahKalynnKalenaKaliahKaleaKaleeKalaniKalieKalliKalayaKaliaKallieMalinaKalynKalilaKalistaKaleiaKaliyaAlbinaKaleenaRosinaKaleiSerinaKalise

Names with a curve like Kalina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kalina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JaelTahliaNoelaniReemFaigyZairaTaliahLiannaSanaBailaLeenaNailah

Sibling names for Kalina

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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