Narine
Armenian at root, where nar means pomegranate: the sense "woman" settled on it later. In Poland it stays rare, carried by fewer than 200 women, so most people here have never met one.
Narine Pronunciation
Narine is pronounced nah-REE-ne (/naˈrinɛ/).
What Narine means
Where Narine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Narine grew up in Armenian, where nar is the word for pomegranate, a fruit prized in art and feast across the region. The name draws on that root and on the red seeds packed under a hard skin. Its first sense is botanical.
The reading "woman" or "young woman" came later. Over time speakers heard a girl in the name rather than a fruit, and a sense of maidenhood settled on it. That shift is common with names built from plants.
One bearer makes the name easy to check. Narine Abgaryan, born 1971 in Berd, is an Armenian writer who set her novel "Three Apples Fell from the Sky" in a mountain village. Her books reached readers across Russia and beyond.
On a Polish class register, Narine would stand out among the Katarzynas and Magdas. It has no Polish name-day of its own. What survives under every spelling is the pomegranate.
How many people are named Narine
1 in 123190 women in Poland is named Narine. 183 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2353 among female names.
Narine's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Narine as a middle name
Narine is a first name for 183 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3376th, between Narcisa (6) and Natalí (6).
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#3374 Nanette6
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#3375 Narcisa6
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#3376 Narine6
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#3377 Natalí6
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#3378 Nazif6