Halyna
Around 33,000 women in Poland carry it, yet it's given to almost no newborns now: the Ukrainian form of Halina, held mostly by those who've had it for decades. At root it's the Greek galēnē, calm, the stillness of the sea once a storm has passed.
Halyna Pronunciation
Halyna is pronounced khah-LIH-nah (/xaˈlɨna/).
What Halyna means
Where Halyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Halyna comes from the Greek galēnē, a word for calm and for the stillness of the sea. The meaning that Polish speakers give it today, spokojna and pogodna, sits right at the root. Here the calm is the origin itself, present from the start. In Ukrainian use the name grew common and warm, and it crossed easily into Polish as Halina.
That Polish form has its own small family. Halina softens into Halinka, shrinks further into Hala, and turns brisk as Halka. The calm stays underneath.
On a school register the name reads plainly. A teacher calls Halina, and the child answers. In Poland her name day falls in early July. Behind all of it stays galēnē, the calm sea.
How many people are named Halyna
1 in 676 women in Poland is named Halyna. 33,349 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #232 among female names.
Halyna as a middle name
Halyna is a first name for 33,349 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3263rd, between Hale (6) and Hamad (6).
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3261
6Haia
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3262
6Hale
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32636Halyna
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3264
6Hamad
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3265
6Hati̇ce