Kalyna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kah-LIH-nah
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Kalyna is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “guelder rose”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Kalyna mean?
Slavic: Ukrainian kalyna, the guelder rose shrub
“guelder rose”
The red-berried kalyna is a traditional symbol of Ukraine in folk songs and embroidery.
Is Kalyna a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalyna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalyna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 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, 14 girls in the US were named Kalyna, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had more girls named Kalyna than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Kalyna in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kalyna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
Names like Kalyna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mckenna, Kiara, Kennedy, Teagan, Kianna, Briella, Brynlee, Cassidy, Fiona, Kinley, Sienna, Brianna
Names related to Kalyna
Kaylani, Kalani, Kailyn, Kaelyn, Kalina, Kaelynn, Kailynn, Kallan
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
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, “Kalyna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalyna, updated 20 October 2026.