Olina
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry it: eleven in all, and no baby has been given it this century. A Slavic name meaning "holy".
Olina Pronunciation
Olina is pronounced o-LEE-nah (/ɔˈlina/).
What Olina means
Where Olina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Olina belongs to the Slavic family that grew up around Olga. Olga itself came into Slavic lands from Old Norse Helga, and Helga meant holy or blessed. The sense of "holy" reached Olina by way of Scandinavia and then settled into Slavic speech. In Polish that meaning is święta.
The Scandinavian link is old and documented. Varangian settlers carried Helga east, and it became Olga among the Slavs. Olina reads as a softer offshoot of that line, keeping the vowel music while dropping the harder ending.
Short and easy to say. On a Polish class register, Olina sits near Ola and Oliwia without repeating either. The name arrives at the urząd as its own entry, not a nickname. Its meaning stays fixed: holy, święta, carried from Helga into Slavic form.
How many people are named Olina
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Olina. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15363 among female names.
Olina as a middle name
Olina is a first name for 11 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5151st, between Oliana (3) and Olwia (3).
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#5149 Olcha3
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#5150 Oliana3
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#5151 Olina3
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#5152 Olwia3
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#5153 Omobolanle3