Corina
Just 122 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Latin name at root, with the sense of a maiden or young woman.
Corina Pronunciation
Corina is pronounced tso-REE-nah (/t͡sɔˈrina/).
What Corina means
Where Corina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Corina comes from Latin, where it names a young woman, a maiden. The Roman poet Ovid gave the name Corinna to the woman at the center of his Amores, love poems published in Rome over two thousand years ago. Behind that Latin form sits the Greek korē, also meaning maiden, the word that named the young Persephone.
The meaning held. Corina still says młoda kobieta, and little has buried that sense under later readings. Robert Herrick kept the longer form in circulation with his 1648 poem, Corinna's Going a-Maying, a call to a girl to rise and greet the May.
On a Polish class register, Corina keeps its own line, spelled with one r. The form stays short, four small syllables that resolve without fuss. The word underneath is plain: maiden, young woman.
How many people are named Corina
1 in 184786 women in Poland is named Corina. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3037 among female names.
Corina as a middle name
Corina is a first name for 122 women in Poland and a middle name for another 26, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1402nd, between Cindy (26) and Harriet (26).
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#1400 Chidinma26
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#1401 Cindy26
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#1402 Corina26
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#1403 Harriet26
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#1404 Jaqueline26