Oleksandrina
Just 11 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Ukrainian name rooted in the Greek for "defender of mankind".
Oleksandrina Pronunciation
Oleksandrina is pronounced o-lek-sahnd-REE-nah (/ɔlɛksandˈrina/).
What Oleksandrina means
Where Oleksandrina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oleksandrina grows from Greek soil. The root is Alexandros, joining alexein, to defend, with andros, of man. So the name means defender of mankind. Greek gave the form, and Ukrainian took it up, shaping the masculine Oleksandr into this longer feminine line.
The masculine Oleksandr is common across Ukraine. Oleksandrina stays rarer, a fuller feminine branch off that stem. Read the parts and the sense of protection sits right there in the Greek.
Picture a class register in a Ukrainian-Polish school. One Oleksandrina among the Oleksandras and Olas, the full form printed where teachers usually meet a short one. On a Polish urząd form the name runs long across the box.
The meaning stays literal, not a later gloss. Defender of mankind was the Greek sense from the start, obrończyni ludzi in Polish. Oleksandrina keeps it.
How many people are named Oleksandrina
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Oleksandrina. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15361 among female names.