Łarysa
From the Greek for "fortress" or "citadel", carried in Poland mostly through Ukrainian families. Only about 112 women here go by it, and no girls were given it last year: most Poles have never met one.
Łarysa Pronunciation
Łarysa is pronounced wah-RIH-sah (/waˈrɨsa/).
What Łarysa means
Where Łarysa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name goes back to a Greek place, the city of Larissa in Thessaly, and to the fortified acropolis of Argos that carried the same name. That stronghold gave the word its meaning of citadel or fortress, the Polish `twierdza` and `forteca`. The link is to stone walls and high ground, not to a person or a virtue.
In Ukrainian hands the name found its most cited bearer. Larysa Kosach, born in 1871, wrote under the name Lesya Ukrainka and became one of that country's central poets. Her given name was Larysa.
The forms stay close to the root. Larysa and Larisa differ by a single letter. Lara does the everyday work as a short form. On a Polish class register the full Łarysa would stand out, then shrink to Lara by the second week. The name still points back to a citadel.
How many people are named Łarysa
1 in 201284 women in Poland is named Łarysa. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3230 among female names.
Łarysa as a middle name
Łarysa is a first name for 112 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4514th, between Ðông (4) and Łucjana (4).
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#4512 Ánh4
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#4513 Ðông4
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#4514 Łarysa4
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#4515 Łucjana4
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#4516 Śnieżanna4