Zoryna
A Slavic name for the dawn, the morning star that comes before sunrise. It carries a Ukrainian tie and stays rare in Poland: only around 130 women hold it, and most Poles have never met one.
Zoryna Pronunciation
Zoryna is pronounced zo-RIH-nah (/zɔˈrɨna/).
What Zoryna means
Where Zoryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Zoryna grows from the Slavic root zor-, the word for daybreak. In Ukrainian, зоря (zorya) names both the dawn and the morning star, the light that arrives before the sun. Its Polish cousin is zorza, and its plainest sense is świt.
Slavic myth kept a figure called Zorya, a dawn goddess who opened the gates of the sky each morning. The morning star was hers. A girl named Zoryna stands in that older company, though the myth faded long before the name became a given one.
On a Polish school register the name reads clearly, no diminutive attached to soften it. It has no shortened form in common use. What it means stays near the surface: zorza, świt, the first light and the star that comes before it.
How many people are named Zoryna
1 in 173414 women in Poland is named Zoryna. 130 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2930 among female names.