Halina
Around 230,000 Polish women carry Halina, but it has nearly vanished from the maternity ward: just 18 newborn girls last year. The name is Slavic at root, and it means calm, serene.
Halina Pronunciation
Halina is pronounced khah-LEE-nah (/xaˈlina/).
What Halina means
Where Halina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Halina grows from Slavic soil, and its short meaning settles into one word: calm. In Polish that word is spokój, the serene kind, the stillness of a room after everyone has stopped talking. The name keeps its softer forms close. Halinka is the diminutive a family reaches for, Hala the blunter one, and Galyna the variant that crossed east into Ukrainian.
Poland has known real women by this name. Halina Poświatowska, the poet who died in 1967, wrote fierce love poems while a failing heart pressed on her. Her name and her work sit oddly together, since the calm of Halina met a life lived at full pressure.
The serene sense did not arrive by accident. It grew alongside the Slavic root and stuck. On a school register the name reads plainly as Halina, and in the margin sits Hala, the form friends actually say.
How many people are named Halina
1 in 97 women in Poland is named Halina. 232,383 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #50 among female names.
Halina's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #535 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002. Still the #50 name among living women, even as it slips to #535 among newborns.
Where Halina is most popular
Halina is most popular in Masovian, 100% above the national average (61 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+81%) and Pomeranian (+66%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Silesian, 71% and 69% below average respectively.
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Masovian61 girls born+100%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian17 girls born+81%
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Pomeranian21 girls born+66%
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Greater Poland29 girls born+57%
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Lower Silesian17 girls born+26%
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Warmian-Masurian7 girls born+13%
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West Pomeranian8 girls born+10%
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Lesser Poland13 girls born−33%
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Łódź4 girls born−63%
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Silesian6 girls born−69%
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Subcarpathian3 girls born−71%
Halina as a middle name
Halina is a first name for 232,383 women in Poland and a middle name for another 86,369, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 32nd, between Alicja (86,785) and Julia (86,163).
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30
95,579Grażyna
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31
86,785Alicja
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3286,369Halina
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33
86,163Julia
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34
83,745Iwona
When Halina celebrates name day
Halina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 1 July.