Orin
Fewer than two dozen people in Poland carry it, split almost evenly between women and men. That balance is rare: most names lean hard one way. Most Poles have never met an Orin.
Orin Pronunciation
Orin is pronounced O-reen (/ˈɔrin/).
What Orin means
Where Orin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Orin comes into English without a single clear source. One line traces it to the Irish Oran, an anglicised form of Odhrán, built from odhar, meaning dun or pale green. Saint Odhrán of Iona, a companion of Columba, carried that older name in the sixth century. So the short gloss, "pale, little green one," reaches back to Irish colour words rather than to any English root.
The sense of light came later. Readers who met Orin near the Hebrew or, meaning light, heard brightness in it, and the name is often glossed in Polish as światło, jasność. That reading sits on top of the Irish one. It does not replace it.
Orin has stayed spare. No standard diminutive attaches to it. On a Polish class register it would stand as its own short entry, four letters, with no obvious nickname to shorten.
Two meanings live in one small word: the Irish "pale green" and the borrowed "light."
How many people are named Orin
1 in 2254383 women in Poland is named Orin. 17 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11198 among female names.
Orin as a middle name
Orin is a first name for 17 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6704th, between Oreste (3) and Orson (3).
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#6702 Omri3
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#6703 Oreste3
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#6704 Orin3
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#6705 Orson3
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#6706 Osaigbovo3