Galyna
The Ukrainian counterpart of Halina, from a Greek root meaning calm or serenity. Only about 3,000 women in Poland carry it, few enough that most people here have never met one.
Galyna Pronunciation
Galyna is pronounced gah-LIH-nah (/gaˈlɨna/).
What Galyna means
Where Galyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Galyna traces back to the Greek galēnē, a word for calm and the stillness of a settled sea. Sailors used it for the kind of weather that let a boat cross safely. The name took root most firmly in Ukraine, where it belongs to grandmothers and neighbours alike.
In Polish it turns into Halina, the variant most families here recognise, and softens again into Halinka and plain Hala. A teacher reading the register might call one girl Halina in September and Hala by winter.
The short meaning stays close to the Greek: spokój, cisza, calm and serenity. That is unusual. Many names gather their sense over centuries, while Galyna kept the plain reading it began with.
Serenity here means composure. It sits in the sound and in the meaning, spokój, cisza.
How many people are named Galyna
1 in 7107 women in Poland is named Galyna. 3,175 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #575 among female names.
Galyna as a middle name
Galyna is a first name for 3,175 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4805th, between Galla (3) and Gashaw (3).
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#4803 Gaelle3
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#4804 Galla3
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#4805 Galyna3
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#4806 Gashaw3
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#4807 Gee3