Galina
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Galina is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “calm”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Galina mean?
Slavic
“calm”
A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Гали́на (Galína).
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Galina a girl's or a boy's name?
Galina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Galina in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Galina, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
2025 had fewer girls named Galina than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Galina in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Galina in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,830 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,116 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,491 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,580 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,994 |
Names like Galina
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Camila, Gianna, Sienna, Mila, Gabriella, Isabella, Alina, Mira, Mckenna, Lilyana, Genesis, Ivanna
More Slavic names
Milan, Vera, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Yuri, Milah, Raisa, Kalina
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Galina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/galina, updated 20 October 2026.