Zorina
A Slavic name for dawn: zorza, the first light of morning. Just 44 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Zorina Pronunciation
Zorina is pronounced zo-REE-nah (/zɔˈrina/).
What Zorina means
Where Zorina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zorina grows from a Slavic root that means dawn. The same root gives Polish its everyday words for first light, zorza and brzask, the pale glow before the sun clears the horizon. The name sits in that word family for the brightening sky.
That root runs wide across Slavic languages. Russian keeps zaryá for dawn, and old Slavic belief held a dawn figure called Zorya, a guardian of the morning. Zorina stands beside those words without borrowing a story from them. The short meaning holds steady: dawn.
On a Polish class register, Zorina reads as Slavic and slightly foreign in the same glance. The Polish calendar fixes no set imieniny to it, and no standard diminutive travels with it. What stays is the meaning under the sound, brzask, the light that comes before morning.
How many people are named Zorina
1 in 512360 women in Poland is named Zorina. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5826 among female names.