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Polina

About 1,334 American babies have been named Polina since 1991, most of them around 2017. In 2025 it ranked 3,249th. About 1,300 Polinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Polina

By the numbers

Total US births
1,334
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
11
Peak year
2017
Best rank
2,432nd
Rank in 2025
3,249th
First recorded
1991

How old the living Polinas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,334 babies given the name since 1991, about 1,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 980 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Polinas

People named Polina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Polina is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Polina is most concentrated in Florida (6.8×), Washington (6.0×), California (3.7×), New York (3.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular girls’ names the year Polina peaked:

All the names of 2017

Polina elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland girls Polina 867 birth registrations 104th
England and Wales girls Polina 295 1,389th
France girls Polina 165 1,984th
Switzerland girls Polina 94 622nd
Ireland girls Polina 37 555th
Belgium girls Polina 25 1,072nd
Scotland girls Polina 3 806th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Polina: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Polina 69 0.006% 664th
French girls Switzerland Polina 25 0.006% 493rd

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Polina is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 36 of them.

Polina: rank by region

In 2024, Polina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Polina 742 6

In 2025, Polina was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Polina 97 15
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Polina 126 4
Lubuskie Polina 116 3
Łódzkie Polina 122 6
Małopolskie Polina 146 7
Mazowieckie Polina 112 22
Pomorskie Polina 116 8
Śląskie Polina 125 10
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Polina 131 2
Wielkopolskie Polina 191 4

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Polina by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 19 309th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Polina among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Polina 305 320

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Polina lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,786 women called Polina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Alicante/Alacant Polina 320 0.311 337
Girona Polina 83 0.200 496
Málaga Polina 153 0.167 496
Valencia/València Polina 233 0.165 469
Tarragona Polina 53 0.121 714
Castellón/Castelló Polina 38 0.120 692

Listed in 33 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 19 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Polina against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.