Dorina
Barely 123 women in Poland go by it, and no girls have been named Dorina in years: most Poles will never meet one. The name comes from Latin and means "gift of god".
Dorina Pronunciation
Dorina is pronounced do-REE-nah (/dɔˈrina/).
What Dorina means
Where Dorina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dorina reaches Polish through Latin, and it means "gift of god." Behind that Latin stand two Greek pieces: doron, meaning gift, and theos, meaning god. The same pair built Dorothea, and Dorina reads as its shorter, rounder cousin.
The sense of "gift" was there from the start. A child named Dorina was placed under the idea of something given, a small Latin root for a large claim. Over centuries the name stayed rare in Poland, more familiar in Hungary and Italy, where Dorina keeps its full three syllables.
Say it on a Polish register and it lands clean. Do-ri-na. In a class list between Dominika and Dorota, it holds its ground, close kin to both and still its own name. The Latin still shows through, and the meaning stays fixed: gift of god.
How many people are named Dorina
1 in 183283 women in Poland is named Dorina. 123 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3029 among female names.
Dorina as a middle name
Dorina is a first name for 123 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2391st, between Domenica (10) and Dorotea (10).
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#2389 Dionizja10
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#2390 Domenica10
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#2391 Dorina10
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#2392 Dorotea10
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#2393 Duygu10