Lusine
Armenian at root, from lusin: the moon, reaching back to luys, light. In Poland it stays rare, carried by around 200 women and no one you're likely to have met.
Lusine Pronunciation
Lusine is pronounced loo-SHEE-ne (/luˈɕinɛ/).
What Lusine means
Where Lusine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lusine comes from the Armenian word for the moon, lusin, which reaches back further to luys, meaning light. The name folds a small piece of astronomy into a single word. To carry it is to carry the lit body of the night sky, the moon that Polish renders as księżyc.
Armenia has kept the name in real use, and it belongs to documented people. The soprano Lusine Zakaryan, who died in 1992, sang Armenian sacred music and made the spelling familiar to listeners far beyond Yerevan. In Poland the name is rare, and a teacher reading a class register might stumble over it once before landing on it correctly.
Its meaning stays close to the surface. Many names hide their sense under centuries of sound-change, while Lusine keeps hers plain and near. Speak the Armenian root and the moon is already present. The short meaning is the whole of it: moon, księżyc, with nothing hidden behind the light.
How many people are named Lusine
1 in 114436 women in Poland is named Lusine. 197 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2249 among female names.
Lusine as a middle name
Lusine is a first name for 197 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3335th, between Lucinda (6) and Léonie (6).
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#3333 Loreto6
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#3334 Lucinda6
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#3335 Lusine6
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#3336 Léonie6
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#3337 Madina6