Jaryna
The Ukrainian form of Irene, Slavic at root and meaning "bright, radiant". Most Poles have never met one: around 40 women and girls carry it, and it barely surfaces among newborns now.
Jaryna Pronunciation
Jaryna is pronounced yah-RIH-nah (/jaˈrɨna/).
What Jaryna means
Where Jaryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jaryna is a Ukrainian name, Slavic in its wear but Greek in its bone. It comes through Iryna from the Greek Eirene, the word for peace and the name of the goddess of peace. So the old meaning is peace.
The Polish ear finds a second reading: jasna, promienna, bright and radiant. That brightness attached to the name later, pulled in by its sound rather than its root. Both senses live in the same short word.
No diminutive is listed for Jaryna, no cross-gender pair. It stands alone.
Picture a class register in a Polish school, Jaryna set a few lines from Irena and Iryna, cousins from that one Greek source. The name has no imieniny of its own, so it leans on Irena's. Underneath every spelling waits the same word, Eirene, peace.
How many people are named Jaryna
1 in 549850 women in Poland is named Jaryna. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6035 among female names.
Jaryna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Jaryna is most popular
Jaryna is most popular in Greater Poland, 502% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+487%).
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Greater Poland3 girls born+502%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+487%
Jaryna as a middle name
Jaryna is a first name for 41 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2575th, between Izabelle (9) and Jing (9).
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#2573 Iwanka9
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#2574 Izabelle9
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#2575 Jaryna9
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#2576 Jing9
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#2577 Jordana9