Galina

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Galina: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Galina: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 18 years, it reached #241 in 1954, and it stood at #5,687 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#241highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Galina's record

Absent from every published list for 18 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201
2022	#4645
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 36 of the 44 years from 1945 to 1988.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #325 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1988
Highest recorded position: #241 among girls in Norway, in 1954 (recorded 1945–1988).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #5687 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Galina appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 260 births with the name.

Galina across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Galina's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#325 (1945)	#241 (1954)	#667 (1988)	36 of 44	260 (1945–1988)	13 (1954)
England and Wales · Girls	#5201 (2007)	#4645 (2022)	#5687 (2023)	3 of 17	10 (2007–2023)	4 (2022)

Galina by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Galina in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	39	5 of 10	8
1950s	75	9 of 10	8
1960s	73	9 of 10	8
1970s	44	7 of 10	6
1980s	29	6 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Galina appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #241 in Norway in 1954.

Galina's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#667	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#484	8	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#603	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#637	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#634	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#623	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#463	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#502	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#493	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#414	8	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#512	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#519	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#479	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#349	10	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#351	9	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#471	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#373	8	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#319	10	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#418	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#340	8	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#306	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#306	10	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#334	8	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#422	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#302	9	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#332	8	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#241	13	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#303	9	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#342	7	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#343	6	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#283	9	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#375	4	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#305	8	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#263	12	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#325	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 39 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #241, first reached in 1954.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in Norway in 1954.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 18 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 62 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Gaja · #651, 15y
Gala · #1995, 15y
Gard · #117, 69y
Gareth · #30, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Emlyn · #240, 34y
Katinka · #244, 40y
Clair · #237, 37y
Earl · #245, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Peggy · #240, 65y
Solrun · #240, 41y
Thorvald · #240, 48y
Veslemøy · #242, 65y

Galina was ranked #241 in Norway · Girls in 1954. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Galina and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Galina without appearing here.

Galina moved ahead of

Fiona Compare
In 1966 they stood at #418 and #389 in Norway · Girls; by 1967 that had become #351 and #545.

Moved ahead of Galina

Amy Compare
In 1987 they stood at #484 and #515 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #667 and #303.
Martina Compare
In 1979 they stood at #463 and #476 in Norway · Girls; by 1980 that had become #623 and #301.
Isabella Compare
In 1987 they stood at #484 and #610 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #667 and #370.
Maya Compare
In 1987 they stood at #484 and #537 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #667 and #374.

Moved the opposite way to Galina

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 while Anita went from #162 to #66.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 while Anna went from #38 to #19.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 while Cecilie went from #359 to #33.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 while Christine went from #253 to #22.

Moved the same way as Galina

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 and Ada from #229 to #363.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 and Alma from #293 to #653.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 and Anne from #1 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1988 in Norway · Girls, Galina went from #325 to #667 and Annie from #180 to #476.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #241 in Norway in 1954. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Galina

Galina at a glance

What stands out in Galina's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Galina across 2 official records

Galina by decade in Norway · Girls

Galina appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Galina at a glance

What stands out in Galina's record

Galina across 2 official records

Galina by decade in Norway · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Galina

Galina and the names beside it

Galina moved ahead of

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