Michalina
The feminine form of Michał, carrying the old Hebrew question "who is like God". It's climbing back in Poland: more girls get it now than through most of the 2000s, and it rings familiar again rather than rare.
Michalina Pronunciation
Michalina is pronounced mee-khah-LEE-nah (/mixaˈlina/).
What Michalina means
Where Michalina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Michalina is the Polish feminine form of Michał, and Michał grew on Slavic ground from a much older question. That question is Hebrew: mi ka-el, któż jak bóg, "who is like God." It began as a challenge flung at anyone who claimed a rank beside God, and the name held the shape of that question long after it settled into Polish speech.
Nearby stands the Ukrainian variant Mykhail, another branch of the same root. Michalina belongs to the daughters. From Michał she took a feminine ending and a life of her own in Poland.
Her imieniny fall on several days across the year. The 29th of September, Michaelmas, ties her most plainly to Michał. Read a Polish school register and a Michalina will answer to it. The meaning stays legible after all this time: who is like God.
When Michalina celebrates name day
Michalina appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 29 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Michalina
1 in 384 women in Poland is named Michalina. 58,653 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #168 among female names.
Michalina's popularity over time
2,380 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #29 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
Where parents choose Michalina
Michalina is most popular in Lubusz, 37% above the national average (583 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+28%) and Warmian-Masurian (+22%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian, 29% and 19% below average respectively.
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Lubusz
+37%1 in 85 babies
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West Pomeranian
+28%1 in 91 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
+22%1 in 95 babies
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Lesser Poland
−29%1 in 164 babies
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Subcarpathian
−19%1 in 144 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−13%1 in 133 babies
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Lubusz+37% 583 born1 in 85 babies+37%
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West Pomeranian+28% 928 born1 in 91 babies+28%
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Warmian-Masurian+22% 754 born1 in 95 babies+22%
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Lublin+11% 982 born1 in 105 babies+11%
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Holy Cross+11% 527 born1 in 105 babies+11%
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Masovian+10% 3,337 born1 in 106 babies+10%
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Lower Silesian+7% 1,446 born1 in 109 babies+7%
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Opole+7% 423 born1 in 109 babies+7%
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Greater Poland+5% 1,935 born1 in 111 babies+5%
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Podlaskie+3% 584 born1 in 113 babies+3%
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Pomeranian−4% 1,216 born1 in 121 babies−4%
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Łódź−8% 1,002 born1 in 126 babies−8%
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Silesian−8% 1,798 born1 in 127 babies−8%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−13% 821 born1 in 133 babies−13%
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Subcarpathian−19% 838 born1 in 144 babies−19%
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Lesser Poland−29% 1,384 born1 in 164 babies−29%
Michalina as a middle name
Michalina is a first name for 58,653 women in Poland and a middle name for another 22,836, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 83rd, between Regina (23,065) and Róża (21,911).
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#81 Bogusława23,319
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#82 Regina23,065
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#83 Michalina22,836
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#84 Róża21,911
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#85 Czesława21,589