Galina

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Russian: "silent, peaceful"

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

/ɡəˈɫinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Galina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 54as Галина(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 92as Галина
  • PLPoland1 in 169as Halina

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Galina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500,000 named Галина, est.

#41 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
306 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 88 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ГалинаCyrillic(measured from records)
HalynaLatin(measured from records)
ԳալինաArmenian(measured from records)
გალინაGeorgian(measured from records)
กาลนาThai(measured from records)
ΓαληναGreek(measured from records)
갈리나Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Галина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Halina in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

"silent, peaceful."

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How Galina is read(measured from records)

Galina is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Russian49%

    "silent, peaceful."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • English18%

    A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Гали́на (Galína).

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

    calm; see Helen; Russian

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Romanian9.0%

    gr. To:Alvy) < adj. yaXtvk senin" 1. Galina f. (17 A III 172) fiica lui Roman Plesea. 2. Galenia mona. Galinicu v. Calinic 4. Galion v. G a l i a n 2. Galls, -esti v. Galie I 6. Galit, -a v. Galie I 8. Galsa v. Galie I 10. Galu, -1 v. Galie I 1.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Galina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Galina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#18≈1,500,000 est.≈1 in 92#7Галина222
UA Ukraine#17≈820,000 est.≈1 in 54listedГалина94
PL Poland#53226,656as Halina1 in 169227KHalina133
KZ Kazakhstan#14≈98,000 est.≈1 in 1954.1KГалина54
BY Belarus#29≈43,000 est.≈1 in 22123Галина47
MD Moldova#4138,2221 in 8838KGalina41

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Galina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gaļina

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Russia, Belgium, United States

    Also written Gaļina

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Galìna, Galiña, Gaļina, Gal̦ina

  • Hebrew given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia

    Also written גלינה, Galena, Halyna, Galyna, Gallina

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Also written Gaļina

45 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(measured from records)

Galina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Galina är ett ryskt namn av grekiskt ursprung. Det kommer från grekiskans galḗnē ’ro, stillhet’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Probably from Greek galéné ‘calm’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Halyna Kuzmenko, b. 1896Galina Ulanova, b. 1909Galina Ustvolskaya, b. 1919Halina Czerny-Stefańska, b. 1922Galina Vishnevskaya, b. 1926Galina Zybina, b. 1931Galina Jovovich, b. 1950Galina Čisťakovová, b. 1962Halyna Hutchins, b. 1979Galena, b. 1985

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalПривет, Galina!Hi Galina, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 81 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Galina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—38K#26
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2K#364
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262K#364

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Galina mean, and where does it come from?
"silent, peaceful." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
Is Galina a male or female name?
Galina 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.
How do you pronounce Galina?
A machine transcription gives /ɡəˈɫinə/ (IPA) for Russian.
What are other forms of the name Galina?
In the etymology graph, Halina and Galene are forms of the same name in other languages; Galya is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Galina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Галина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Galina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 88 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Galina?
In Moldova, the national register counted 38,222 people named Galina, about 1 in 88 residents.
How common is Galina compared with other names?
In Russia, Galina is the 18th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Galina” — the 18th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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