Katsiaryna
A variant of Katarzyna, from the Greek for "pure". About 4,700 Polish women carry it, few enough that most people here have never met one.
Katsiaryna Pronunciation
Katsiaryna is pronounced kaht-shah-RIH-nah (/katɕaˈrɨna/).
What Katsiaryna means
Where Katsiaryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Katsiaryna is the Belarusian form of a Greek name, Aikaterine, the same root behind Polish Katarzyna. Early Christians linked it to katharos, the Greek word for pure, and that reading stuck. The sense of "pure" was attached to the name later, well after its Greek beginning.
Kasia is the short form. In Poland the variant Katarzyna has stayed common for centuries, and Kasia turns up again and again in a school class register. The spelling with "ts" marks Katsiaryna's eastern route.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a fourth-century figure venerated widely, carried the name across Europe. Her feast falls on 25 November, still the imieniny for Katarzyna in Polish calendars. What people hear as "pure" points back to katharos rather than to Aikaterine itself.
How many people are named Katsiaryna
1 in 4732 women in Poland is named Katsiaryna. 4,766 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #497 among female names.
Katsiaryna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.