Polina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von (DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 41 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pɐˈlʲinə/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from полина
Polina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name. Polina is also written Полина in Cyrillic, פולינה in Hebrew and Παυλινα in Greek.
- MDMoldova1 in 659(measured from records)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 1.4K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 22K
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 Polina 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)
- #362 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 659 (inferred from the name graph)
≈510,000 named Полина, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Polina in other scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew and 5 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Полина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Paulina in PL Poland, US United States, Поліна in UA Ukraine and Pavlína in CZ Czechia.
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.
How to pronounce Polina
- Russian:/pɐˈlʲinə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Polina, 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)Polina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #71 | ≈510,000 est. | ≈1 in 284 | register #35 | Полина | 215 |
| PL Poland | #67 | 224,208as Paulina | 1 in 171 | 224K | Paulina | 226 |
| CZ Czechia | #73 | 71,726as Pavlína | 1 in 149 | 72K | Pavlína | 102 |
| US United States | — | 70,447as Pauline | 1 in 4.7K | 70K | Paulina | 265 |
| UA Ukraine | #93 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Поліна | 78 |
| BY Belarus | #57 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 421 | 6 | Полина | 47 |
| MD Moldova | — | 5,107 | 1 in 659 | 5.1K | פולינה | 19 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Polina 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.
Russian: pet form of APOLLINARIA .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Polina Astakhovab. 1936UASoviet-Ukrainian artistic gymnast (1936–2005)
- Polina Gagarinab. 1987RURussian singer-songwriter
- Polina Chernyshovab. 1993RURussian actor
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)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)82 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Polina mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- What are other forms of the name Polina?
- In the etymology graph, Pauline, Paulina and Paulene are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Apollinariya.
- How do you pronounce Polina?
- In Russian /pɐˈlʲinə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Polina a male or female name?
- Polina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Estonia (Statistics Estonia), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Polina?
- Mondonomo estimates about 506 thousand people named Полина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Poland, Czechia, United States and Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Polina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Polina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 659 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Polina?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 5,107 people named Polina, about 1 in 659 residents.
- How common is Polina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Polina is the 71st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Polina” — the 71st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.