Sorin
A Slavic name meaning "sun". Barely 110 men in Poland carry it, and the register logs almost no newborn Sorin now, so meeting one stays memorable.
Sorin Pronunciation
Sorin is pronounced SO-reen (/ˈsɔrin/).
What Sorin means
Where Sorin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Sorin grows from a Slavic root meaning sun, słońce in Polish. That link to daylight sits plainly in the name, and it needs no gloss to feel warm.
For the people who carry Sorin, the sun-sense has worked as a plain, legible signature. It is short and easy to say across languages. The meaning stays clear even when the etymology grows faint, which is how sun-names often travel. The image outlasts the grammar that made it.
On a class register in a Polish school, Sorin lands between older Slavic names and newer imports, neither fully strange nor fully familiar. Bearers report that people ask where it comes from.
The answer is the same every time. It means sun.
How many people are named Sorin
1 in 194056 men in Poland is named Sorin. 110 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3252 among male names.
Sorin as a middle name
Sorin is a first name for 110 men in Poland and a middle name for another 28, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1615th, between Semir (28) and Yassine (28).
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#1613 Segundo28
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#1614 Semir28
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#1615 Sorin28
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#1616 Yassine28
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#1617 Ashokbhai27