Palina
A Slavic name meaning "small, humble". Fewer than two thousand Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met one, though a few girls still get it each year.
Palina Pronunciation
Palina is pronounced pah-LEE-nah (/paˈlina/).
What Palina means
Where Palina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Palina belongs to the Slavic family of names, close kin to Paulina, and the meaning that stays with it is small and humble. That smallness is not a lack. It marks a person taken as modest, unassuming, easy to miss until you actually look.
In a Polish class register the fuller Paulina turns up far more often, with Paula as another variant of the same name. Palina sits a step to the side, closer to how the name sounds in the Slavic east. The diminutive Pola waits underneath, short enough that a child settles into it quickly.
Call the smallness a matter of scale rather than worth. A Palina can be Pola at home and Paulina on an official form at the urząd, one name resized for the room she is in. What holds through every version is the plain sense it began with, small and humble.
How many people are named Palina
1 in 13925 women in Poland is named Palina. 1,619 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #771 among female names.
Palina's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1126 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024. Still the #771 name among living women, even as it slips to #1126 among newborns.
Where Palina is most popular
Palina is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025).
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