Yarina
A Slavic name meaning "peace". It stays rare in Poland: fewer than fifty women carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Yarina Pronunciation
Yarina is pronounced ih-ah-REE-nah (/ɨaˈrina/).
What Yarina means
Where Yarina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yarina grows from Slavic roots, and Ukrainian speakers have kept it closest to home. The meaning handed down is peace, in Polish pokój. That sense links it to Iryna, the Ukrainian form of a Greek name, Eirene, that meant peace. The peace came by way of Iryna. Yarina holds its own Slavic shape and its own vowels.
On this record the name carries no diminutives and no variants. It stands alone. A child on a Polish class register writes three full syllables, Ya-ri-na, with nothing to trim. Teachers read it once and get it right.
So the story stays small and firm. A Slavic name, Ukrainian in daily speech, glossed as peace. There is no cross-gender twin here and no pet form to fall back on. When someone asks what Yarina means, the answer is one word: pokój.
How many people are named Yarina
1 in 479656 women in Poland is named Yarina. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5586 among female names.
Yarina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.