Daryna
A Slavic name meaning "gift", and a close relative of Daria. Its use in Poland runs mostly through Ukrainian families, and it stays uncommon enough that meeting one is the kind of thing you remember.
Daryna Pronunciation
Daryna is pronounced dah-RIH-nah (/daˈrɨna/).
What Daryna means
Where Daryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Daryna reaches Polish ears from across the eastern border, a Slavic name most at home in Ukraine. It stands close to Daria, its variant, and anyone who knows one will recognise the other. The meaning Polish speakers reach for is dar: a gift.
That sense of a gift was fastened to the name over time, an association more than a literal first root, and it has held well. Ukrainian bearers have carried Daryna through generations while Daria travelled west and settled into Polish registers on its own terms. The two names share a shape and a warmth without being quite the same.
Picture the class register at a school near Lublin, where Daryna might sit a line above or below Daria, both accounted for by the teacher taking attendance. Short, and it lands. The name says gift.
How many people are named Daryna
1 in 2538 women in Poland is named Daryna. 8,883 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #379 among female names.
Daryna's popularity over time
20 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #508 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2015. Still the #379 name among living women, even as it slips to #508 among newborns.
Where Daryna is most popular
Daryna is most popular in Masovian, 101% above the national average (36 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+89%) and West Pomeranian (+88%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Silesian, 67% and 48% below average respectively.
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Masovian36 girls born+101%
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Lower Silesian15 girls born+89%
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West Pomeranian8 girls born+88%
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Pomeranian12 girls born+61%
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Lubusz4 girls born+60%
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Greater Poland14 girls born+29%
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Łódź5 girls born−22%
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Lesser Poland7 girls born−39%
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Silesian6 girls born−48%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−67%
Daryna as a middle name
Daryna is a first name for 8,883 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2950th, between Dalma (7) and Davina (7).
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#2948 Czekina7
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#2949 Dalma7
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#2950 Daryna7
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#2951 Davina7
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#2952 Debra7