Galina is a Russian name from the Greek galēnē, meaning calm and stillness — especially the tranquil, glassy calm of the sea. It is serenity given a name.
A beloved classic across Russia and Eastern Europe, it has a graceful, flowing sound and the sweet nickname Galya.
Galina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Galina reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.