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Calina

Girl · ka-LEE-na · Slavic

Calina is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “guelder rose”. In 2025 it ranked 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).

What does Calina mean?

Slavic: spelling of Kalina; Slavic plant name

“guelder rose”

Slavic word for the guelder rose, a shrub with bright red berries celebrated in Slavic folk songs.

Say it
ka-LEE-na

Meaning borrowed from Kalina.

Is Calina a girl's or a boy's name?

Calina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Calina in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,660among girls
Babies in 2025
29about 1 in 55,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 15% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Calina, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.

Half of all the girls named Calina in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 226 girls in the US were given Calina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #981, up from #4,660 for this spelling alone.

1976Busiest: 39 in 20182025
Calina in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202529#4,660
202429#4,667
202327#4,870
202236#4,039
202133#4,241
202030#4,451
201931#4,436
201839#3,788
201724#5,336
201636#4,082
201536#4,068
201422#5,795
201319#6,459
201221#6,107
201116#7,432
201015#7,877
200915#8,054
200824#5,747
200714#8,516
200622#5,904
200514#7,886
20048#11,617
200320#5,790
200213#7,810
20019#10,095
200013#7,574
199912#7,710
19980–
199710#8,329
19966#11,801
199512#7,036
199412#7,091
199313#6,615
19929#8,726
199110#7,980
199010#7,874
198912#6,525
19885#11,792
19878#7,982
198612#5,754
19859#6,952
19845#10,417
19839#6,703
198211#5,909
19819#6,802
19800–
19795#10,208
19780–
19770–
19768#6,609

Names like Calina

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