Arina

Locally spelled Арина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Arina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Ksenia
• Elina
• Milena
• Galina
• Oksana

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Arina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Russia, Romania

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian

  Also written Ariña, Árina, Ariná, Arinã, Àrina

• Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Arina, Arina'

• French given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Russia, United States

  Also written Ãrìñà, Ãrina, Ariña

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Āriņa, Ârina, Ariña

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Arina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Russian: variant of IRINA . Pet forms: Arisha, Orya .

  as a word

• In Latvian, A transliteration of the Russian female given name Арина (Arina)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In fit, The grating on the floor of a fireplace.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, hearth grate, fireplace grate

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In izh, arch (entrance to an oven)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Arina Tanemurab. 1978JPJapanese manga artist
• Aryna Sabalenkab. 1998BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian tennis player
• Arina Averinab. 1998RURussian rhythmic gymnast (1998-)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

77 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Arina?

In the etymology graph, Irene, Irina and Irena are forms of the same name in other languages; Ira, Arisha and Irinushka are recorded short or pet forms.

Which countries have the most people named Arina?

Mondonomo estimates about 228 thousand people named Арина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Arina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 453 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

What does the name Arina mean?

Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., niederländische Kurzform von

How do you pronounce Arina?

It depends on the language: in Russian /arʲina/; in Indonesian /arˈina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

How common is the name Arina?

In Moldova, the national register counted 7,423 people named Arina, about 1 in 453 residents.

How common is Arina compared with other names?

In Russia, Arina is the 97th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

Is Arina a male or female name?

Arina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Norway (SSB), among others.