Arina
Greek at root, carrying the sense of "peace". It stays uncommon in Poland, the kind of name you'd remember meeting, and its whole story here is recent: almost no girls got it before the 2020s, when it started climbing.
Arina Pronunciation
Arina is pronounced ah-REE-nah (/aˈrina/).
What Arina means
Where Arina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arina reaches Polish ears with a Russian accent. Its root is Greek: eirēnē, the word for peace, the same source that stands behind Irene and its Eastern forms. In Poland the short meaning reads simply as pokój.
The most famous bearer was Arina Rodionovna, the serf nurse who raised Alexander Pushkin and filled his childhood with folk tales. Pushkin wrote poems to her. Through that one woman the name gathered a reputation for warmth and storytelling that Russian families kept remembering long after.
On a Polish class register, Arina still looks like a visitor from the East, uncommon and plainly foreign. It arrives without the diminutives that soften so many Slavic names. What it brings instead is old and unadorned: the Greek word for peace, pokój.
How many people are named Arina
1 in 3804 women in Poland is named Arina. 5,930 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #457 among female names.
Arina's popularity over time
57 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #334 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.
Where Arina is most popular
Arina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 88% above the national average (47 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+64%) and West Pomeranian (+64%). It is least common in Lublin and Podlaskie, 88% and 81% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian47 girls born+88%
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Lubusz13 girls born+64%
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West Pomeranian22 girls born+64%
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Greater Poland51 girls born+49%
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Łódź30 girls born+49%
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Masovian74 girls born+31%
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Pomeranian28 girls born+19%
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Opole8 girls born+9%
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Silesian38 girls born+5%
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Warmian-Masurian7 girls born−39%
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Lesser Poland17 girls born−53%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian5 girls born−71%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−81%
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Lublin2 girls born−88%
Arina as a middle name
Arina is a first name for 5,930 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2133rd, between Arielle (12) and Arlette (12).
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#2131 Andréa12
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#2132 Arielle12
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#2133 Arina12
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#2134 Arlette12
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#2135 Arnolda12