# Galina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/galina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Bulgarian |
| Meaning | “calm” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 381 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 381 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Гали́на (Galína), from Ancient Greek γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm”), name of a Nereid and of early martyrs venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

## What it means

Galina is grouped under peace.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 10,644 |
| 2012 | 13 | 8,806 |
| 2013 | 11 | 9,813 |
| 2014 | 15 | 7,807 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,141 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,954 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,729 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,386 |
| 2019 | 10 | 9,985 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,550 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,662 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,651 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,198 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,367 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,261 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Галина
- Polish: Halina
- Russian: Гали́на
- Swedish: Galina
- Ukrainian: Гали́на

## People named Galina

- Galina Lukashenko, First Lady of the Republic of Belarus
- Galina Brezhneva, daughter of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1929–1998)
- Galina Minaicheva, artistic gymnast
- Galina Kreft, Canoe racer (1950-2005)
- Galina Tsareva, cyclist
- Galina Danilova, actress
- Alina Astafei, German high jumper
- Galena, Bulgarian singer
- Gloria, Bulgarian pop-folk singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.