Darina
Slavic at root, built on dar, "gift." It sits just inside Poland's top thousand girls' names, but it's fading fast: fewer newborns take it each year, and most Poles have never met one.
Darina Pronunciation
Darina is pronounced dah-REE-nah (/daˈrina/).
What Darina means
Where Darina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Darina belongs to a Slavic family of names built on the small word dar, meaning gift. Say the ending softly and you land near Daria, the variant that Polish speakers know best. The two share a root. Both hand the same idea to whoever carries the name: something given.
The link to "gift" is worth telling plainly. In Polish, dar is an ordinary word, the thing you bring to a birthday or leave under the tree at Christmas. A child named Darina wears that word without ceremony.
Short. Bright. Easy to call across a room. Darina keeps the Slavic sense close, while Daria has traveled further into everyday use. On an imieniny card the name looks settled, the same gift the word dar names.
How many people are named Darina
1 in 24398 women in Poland is named Darina. 924 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #993 among female names.
Darina's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1028 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2017. Still the #993 name among living women, even as it slips to #1028 among newborns.
Where Darina is most popular
Darina is most popular in Łódź, 120% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+94%) and Lower Silesian (+77%). It is least common in Greater Poland, 3% below average.
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Łódź4 girls born+120%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born+94%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+77%
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Masovian9 girls born+77%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+65%
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Silesian5 girls born+53%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born+16%
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Greater Poland3 girls born−3%
Darina as a middle name
Darina is a first name for 924 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1659th, between Céline (19) and Dee (19).
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#1657 Bonifacja19
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#1658 Céline19
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#1659 Darina19
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#1660 Dee19
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#1661 Defne19