Heorhina
Just 29 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. It's the Ukrainian form of Georgina, from a Greek root meaning a farmer or worker of the earth.
Heorhina Pronunciation
Heorhina is pronounced khe-or-KHEE-nah (/xɛɔrˈxina/).
What Heorhina means
Where Heorhina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Heorhina grows from Greek soil. The root is georgos, a compound of ge, "earth", and ergon, "work", so the name means farmer, or earth-worker. Ukrainian speakers shaped it as the feminine of Heorhiy, their form of George, and the sound softened into Heorhina.
Follow the name west and you meet its variant, Georgina, the form a Polish clerk would write cleanly on an official document at the urząd. Both belong to the same field. Both name a woman whose Greek namesake tilled the ground.
The link to farming stays literal. Saint George, the dragon-slayer, gave the masculine name its fame, yet the older sense sits underneath: one who works the earth. In Polish the meaning is exact, rolniczka, the żeński odpowiednik of Jerzy.
There is a botanical echo too. The dahlia was once called georgina, after the naturalist Johann Gottlieb Georgi. So the name reaches from a Greek farmer to a garden flower, and its plain meaning holds: earth-worker.
How many people are named Heorhina
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Heorhina. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7655 among female names.