Arina
Feminine · “peace”
Arina is the Russian of Irina — peace, in Greek — and Pushkin's nurse Arina Rodionovna told him the folk tales he versified.
How old is the name Arina?
Arina first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Arina is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Arina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arina most popular?
Arina peaked in 2017, reaching #2283 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, 362 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From eirene to Arina
The story of Arina
Arina Rodionovna was Pushkin's serf nurse and the source of the folk tales he turned into verse; he wrote poems to her and she is among the most-remembered nurses in literature. The name descends from the Greek for peace. Arina appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
peace
From the Greek eirene, 'peace', through Irene and the Russian Irina and Arina. Eirene was a goddess of peace and the word is ordinary Greek. The same root gives 'irenic'. The Greek is documented and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- eirene
- Irina
- Arina
Related forms: Арина · Irina · Eirene
Pronouncing Arina
ah-REE-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Russian says it the same way.
Nicknames for Arina
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 201781 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2283reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −4.4%65 in 2025, from 68
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Арина in Russian — transliteration
- Irina in English — related form
- Eirene in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Florida.
Arinas among us
people named Arina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Arina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Arina
- #2645
- Arina on the 2025 chart
- #886
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Arina went to 65 girls in 2025, but Aryna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 74, which makes it the 886th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,759 places above the chart.
- Arina65
- Aryna9
About 1 girl in 21,720 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,727 for Arina itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shakeya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Arina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shakeya climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shakeya's path sketches the road Arina is walking now.
Arina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Arina is headed
Arina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Arina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Arina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Pushkin's nurse gave him his folk tales is a first-rate fact.
- Ari and Rina are two short forms, both real names elsewhere.
- The peace meaning is transparent and undisputed.
- Irina is the commoner Russian form.
- It reads as specifically Russian.
- Arina and Arianna are close enough to confuse.
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Frequently asked
- How many Arinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Arina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Arina?
- Arina is the most-used spelling in US records — 65 of the 74 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Aryna.
- How popular is the name Arina in 2025?
- Arina ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Arina?
- About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Arina — 65 in all.
- Will my child share the name Arina with classmates?
- Arina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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