Alina
A Slavic name meaning "noble". Well over 100,000 Polish women carry it, common enough that you almost certainly know one, though it's given a little less often now than a few years back.
Alina Pronunciation
Alina is pronounced ah-LEE-nah (/aˈlina/).
What Alina means
Where Alina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alina grew up in Slavic soil, and in Poland readers have long taken it to mean "noble," szlachetna in Polish. That meaning probably settled onto the name later, pulled by the sense of related forms such as Adelina, so it reads better as a story about the name than as a claim about its oldest root. The Slavic origin is the firmer ground here.
The name travels well. You find it in Ukraine and across the Balkans, and it keeps its shape almost everywhere it lands. In Polish it also keeps a short, close diminutive: Ala, the form a teacher might call from a class register.
Alina holds steady on an official form at the urząd, while Ala does the daily work at school and among friends. The name asks little. It gives a clear meaning: noble.
When Alina celebrates name day
Alina appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 16 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Alina
1 in 217 women in Poland is named Alina. 103,903 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #124 among female names.
Alina's popularity over time
123 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #231 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005. Still the #124 name among living women, even as it slips to #231 among newborns.
Where parents choose Alina
Alina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 33% above the national average (101 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+30%) and West Pomeranian (+30%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Subcarpathian, 43% and 37% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+33%1 in 1,556 babies
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Opole
+30%1 in 1,589 babies
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West Pomeranian
+30%1 in 1,593 babies
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Podlaskie
−43%1 in 3,655 babies
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Subcarpathian
−37%1 in 3,259 babies
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Greater Poland
−29%1 in 2,909 babies
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Lower Silesian+33% 101 born1 in 1,556 babies+33%
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Opole+30% 29 born1 in 1,589 babies+30%
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West Pomeranian+30% 53 born1 in 1,593 babies+30%
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Lesser Poland+19% 131 born1 in 1,732 babies+19%
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Lubusz+12% 27 born1 in 1,839 babies+12%
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Masovian+12% 192 born1 in 1,845 babies+12%
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Silesian+10% 121 born1 in 1,881 babies+10%
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Pomeranian+2% 73 born1 in 2,018 babies+2%
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Warmian-Masurian−2% 34 born1 in 2,112 babies−2%
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Łódź−5% 58 born1 in 2,185 babies−5%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−21% 42 born1 in 2,604 babies−21%
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Lublin−26% 37 born1 in 2,775 babies−26%
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Greater Poland−29% 74 born1 in 2,909 babies−29%
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Holy Cross−29% 19 born1 in 2,918 babies−29%
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Subcarpathian−37% 37 born1 in 3,259 babies−37%
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Podlaskie−43% 18 born1 in 3,655 babies−43%
Alina as a middle name
Alina is a first name for 103,903 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23,919, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 79th, between Bronisława (24,310) and Maja (23,460).
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#77 Franciszka24,600
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#78 Bronisława24,310
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#79 Alina23,919
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#80 Maja23,460
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#81 Bogusława23,319