Orina
Slavic at root, it carries the sense of "peace". One of the rarest names in Poland: fewer than 70 women bear it, all of them female, and almost no newborns arrive to refresh it.
Orina Pronunciation
Orina is pronounced o-REE-nah (/ɔˈrina/).
What Orina means
Where Orina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Orina is a Slavic name, a Russian folk form of Irina. Russian speakers softened the older Irina into Arina and then into Orina. Alongside Arina, it belongs to a homely, spoken line of the name. The name stayed close to the village.
Its meaning is peace. That sense traces to Greek Eirene, the goddess of peace and the root behind Irina. The peace in Orina was attached through that Greek line, long before the Russian form took shape. Orina inherited it from a word that crossed out of Greek into Slavic speech.
On a Polish class register today, an Orina would sit among the Irenas and Irynas, cousins by root. The imieniny would fall where Irena's does. The meaning underneath stays the same: peace, pokój in Polish.
How many people are named Orina
1 in 336475 women in Poland is named Orina. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4447 among female names.
Orina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Orina is most popular
Orina is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Orina as a middle name
Orina is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3392nd, between Onome (6) and Orlena (6).
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#3390 Oceane6
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#3391 Onome6
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#3392 Orina6
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#3393 Orlena6
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#3394 Pratik6