Koryna
From the Greek korē, a word for a young girl, by way of Korinna: Koryna is its Polish spelling. Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one is something you'd remember.
Koryna Pronunciation
Koryna is pronounced ko-RIH-nah (/kɔˈrɨna/).
What Koryna means
Where Koryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Koryna traces back to the Greek korē, a word for a girl or a young maiden. From that root grew Korinna, a Greek diminutive, and Koryna is simply its Polish spelling. The short meaning stays close to the source: dziewczę, a young girl.
Greece supplied the name's early bearers. Corinna of Tanagra was a lyric poet of Boeotia, remembered in antiquity as a rival of Pindar. Centuries later Ovid addressed the love poems of his Amores to a woman he called Corinna, and English poets borrowed her after him. So the name reached readers through verse long before it reached baptismal registers.
In Poland the form Koryna is rare. It shares its shape with Korina, the variant most people meet first.
Picture a school register in September: one Koryna among the Karolinas and Katarzynas, her name read out and paused over. The sound is short and open. And underneath it sits that plain old meaning, korē, a young girl.
When Koryna celebrates name day
Koryna appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Koryna
1 in 114436 women in Poland is named Koryna. 197 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2247 among female names.
Koryna as a middle name
Koryna is a first name for 197 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1238th, between Kataleja (32) and Luciana (32).
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#1236 Imelda32
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#1237 Kataleja32
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#1238 Koryna32
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#1239 Luciana32
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#1240 Margarida32