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Larysa

From Greek, it means "citadel" or "fortress". Around 17,000 Polish women carry it and it stays close to Ukrainian usage, so meeting one is something you remember.

Larysa Pronunciation

Larysa is pronounced lah-RIH-sah (/laˈrɨsa/).

Alive in 2025
17,383
Newborns 2025
29
National rank
#292
Next name day
26 March
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What Larysa means

Where Larysa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Larysa reaches Polish from Greek, by way of a place. Larissa was a city in ancient Thessaly, and its name has long been linked to a Greek word for a citadel. That link gives the Polish reading of the name: twierdza, forteca. A fortress does not move.

The name feels Ukrainian to many ears, and one bearer fixed that association. Larysa Kosach, born in 1871, published under the name Lesya Ukrainka and became one of the central poets of the Ukrainian language. Her given name, the one on her birth records, was Larysa.

In Polish paperwork the fuller form Larissa sometimes appears, while Lara does the daily work as a diminutive. Read down a class register near the end of March and you may find a Larysa waiting for her imieniny. The meaning underneath stays the same, a fortress.

When Larysa celebrates name day

Larysa appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 26 March.

Next name day
26 March
Friday in 2027
Next one in 197 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Larysa

1 in 1297 women in Poland is named Larysa. 17,383 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #292 among female names.

People with the name Larysa 2019 → 2025
17,383 +13,368 since 2019
2020 4,891 +876
2021 5,924 +1,033
2022 7,322 +1,398
2023 15,126 +7,804
2024 16,529 +1,403
2025 17,383 +854

Larysa's popularity over time

29 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #446 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001. Still the #292 name among living women, even as it slips to #446 among newborns.

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29 newborns with the name Larysa in 2025
national rank #446 that year

Where Larysa is most popular

Larysa is most popular in Greater Poland, 149% above the national average (54 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+63%) and Silesian (+44%). It is least common in Lublin and Lubusz, 71% and 60% below average respectively.

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Larysa as a middle name

Larysa is a first name for 17,383 women in Poland and a middle name for another 499, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 311th, between Cristina (505) and Gabryela (497).

As a first name
17,383
As a middle name
499
first name 97% middle name 3%
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