Irine
Only 93 women in Poland carry this name, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. It comes from Greek and means "peace".
Irine Pronunciation
Irine is pronounced ee-REE-ne (/iˈrinɛ/).
What Irine means
Where Irine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Irine comes from Greek. Its root is Eirene (Εἰρήνη), which was simply the Greek word for peace. In Hesiod's Theogony, Eirene appears among the Horae, the daughters of Zeus and Themis who watched over order and the turning seasons. So the name began as a common noun before it belonged to any person.
Peace is the plain meaning. Greeks used that same word at the market and in the wording of treaties.
On a Polish class register, Irine sits a line away from Irena, the spelling that took root here. The Polish gloss is pokój, a word that means both peace and a room you can stand in. That double sense gives the name a small, domestic weight the Greek original did not carry. The meaning holds across every spelling: pokój, peace, Eirene.
How many people are named Irine
1 in 242407 women in Poland is named Irine. 93 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3608 among female names.