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Halina

Around 230,000 Polish women carry Halina, but it has nearly vanished from the maternity ward: just 18 newborn girls last year. The name is Slavic at root, and it means calm, serene.

Halina Pronunciation

Halina is pronounced khah-LEE-nah (/xaˈlina/).

Alive in 2025
232,383
Newborns 2025
18
National rank
#50
Next name day
1 July
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What Halina means

Where Halina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Halina grows from Slavic soil, and its short meaning settles into one word: calm. In Polish that word is spokój, the serene kind, the stillness of a room after everyone has stopped talking. The name keeps its softer forms close. Halinka is the diminutive a family reaches for, Hala the blunter one, and Galyna the variant that crossed east into Ukrainian.

Poland has known real women by this name. Halina Poświatowska, the poet who died in 1967, wrote fierce love poems while a failing heart pressed on her. Her name and her work sit oddly together, since the calm of Halina met a life lived at full pressure.

The serene sense did not arrive by accident. It grew alongside the Slavic root and stuck. On a school register the name reads plainly as Halina, and in the margin sits Hala, the form friends actually say.

When Halina celebrates name day

Halina appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 1 July.

Next name day
1 July
Thursday in 2027
Next one in 294 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Halina

1 in 97 women in Poland is named Halina. 232,383 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #50 among female names.

People with the name Halina 2019 → 2025
232,383 -31,516 since 2019
2020 261,362 -2,537
2021 255,200 -6,162
2022 248,784 -6,416
2023 243,336 -5,448
2024 238,059 -5,277
2025 232,383 -5,676

Halina's popularity over time

18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #535 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002. Still the #50 name among living women, even as it slips to #535 among newborns.

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18 newborns with the name Halina in 2025
national rank #535 that year

Where Halina is most popular

Halina is most popular in Masovian, 100% above the national average (61 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+81%) and Pomeranian (+66%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Silesian, 71% and 69% below average respectively.

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Halina as a middle name

Halina is a first name for 232,383 women in Poland and a middle name for another 86,369, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 32nd, between Alicja (86,785) and Julia (86,163).

As a first name
232,383
As a middle name
86,369
first name 73% middle name 27%
Middle-name ranking women

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