Entry № 5154 · Slavic origin

Kalina Kalina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-LEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Guelder rose, viburnum"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "guelder rose, viburnum".

Kalina is the Slavic word for the guelder rose (viburnum) — a shrub with bright red berries, deeply symbolic in Slavic folk culture, especially Ukrainian, where it represents motherland and youth.

Kalina is widely used in Poland, Ukraine, and Bulgaria.

Guelder rose. The Slavic motherland symbol.

The name in its native script.

Kalina
Transliteration
Kalina
Pronunciation
/ kəˈliː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kalina stands.

Kalina 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.

Kalinas before her.

Real people
Kalina Jędrusik
Polish actress and singer.
1930 – 1991
In fiction
Kalina
Common in Slavic fiction.

Names connected to Kalina.

The number behind Kalina.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kalina reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.