Shorena
Fewer than 150 women in Poland carry Shorena, rare enough that most people here will never meet one. No newborn has taken it since 2000, and every bearer is a woman.
Shorena Pronunciation
What Shorena means
Where Shorena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shorena is a Georgian name for a woman. Georgian usage ties it to the word "shori," meaning far or distant, the sense that survives in the English gloss, distant, far away. Its origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin families, filed simply as other.
Literature carried the name furthest. In Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's 1939 novel "The Hand of the Great Master," Shorena is a noblewoman, the daughter of a tribal chief, courted by King Giorgi I. Georgian readers have met the name on that page for generations.
The Polish reading turned softer.
The sense of jasna, bright and clear and lovely, was fastened to Shorena later, long after the older idea of distance. On a Polish class register the name still looks foreign, and a teacher may pause before the first sound. What stays underneath is the Georgian "shori," far away.
How many people are named Shorena
1 in 156554 women in Poland is named Shorena. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2724 among female names.