Yaryna
A Slavic name meaning "peace", carried in Poland almost entirely within Ukrainian families. Around 1,500 women bear it and it goes only to girls, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Yaryna Pronunciation
Yaryna is pronounced ih-ah-RIH-nah (/ɨaˈrɨna/).
What Yaryna means
Where Yaryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yaryna is a Ukrainian name, Slavic in origin. Scholars usually connect it to Iryna, the local form of the Greek Eirene, a word that means peace. So the oldest layer of meaning is peace. In Greek myth Eirene was a goddess of peace, counted among the Horae.
Polish name books gloss Yaryna differently, as wiosna, spring. This reading leans on the Slavic root yar, tied to warm weather and new growth. The sense of spring came to the name later, pulled in by the sound of yar rather than by the Greek. Both readings travel together now.
On a Ukrainian class register the name stands alone. There is no common diminutive, no cross-gender twin, only Yaryna itself. The name holds two meanings at once: peace from Eirene, spring from yar.
How many people are named Yaryna
1 in 14582 women in Poland is named Yaryna. 1,546 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #789 among female names.
Yaryna's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #842 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #789 name among living women, even as it slips to #842 among newborns.
Where Yaryna is most popular
Yaryna is most popular in Łódź, 355% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+185%) and Lower Silesian (+83%).
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Łódź4 girls born+355%
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Masovian7 girls born+185%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+83%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+27%
Yaryna as a middle name
Yaryna is a first name for 1,546 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3459th, between Yadira (6) and Yasmeen (6).
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#3457 Xing6
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#3458 Yadira6
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#3459 Yaryna6
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#3460 Yasmeen6
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#3461 Yoana6