Polina is the Russian form of Paulina — from the Latin paulus, meaning "small" or "humble." Some scholars also link it to the Greek Apollonia, derived from the sun god Apollo — making it potentially "belonging to Apollo, the sun."
Polina is one of the most popular girl's names in Russia, Ukraine, and across Eastern Europe. It is rising in Western records as families bring it forward.
Polina 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Polina reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.