Shalina

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Shalina by the numbers

Shalina was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 32 babies in 1985, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Shalina

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shalina. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Shainabeautiful or lovely75 in the US (2017)
  • Salinasolemn, dignified36 in the US (2017)
  • Shalinimodest, gentle, or peaceful woman6 in the US (2017)
  • Sharinaprincess; a form of Sharon
  • Shalin5 in the US (2017)
  • Selinamoon goddess; form of Selene64 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Shalina

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