Halina is the Polish form of Galina — from the Greek galēnē, meaning "calm" — or possibly related to the Greek helios (sun, light).
Halina Mickiewicz was the wife of the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz; Halina Birenbaum is a Holocaust survivor and author.
Halina 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 Halina reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.