Fun Facts About the Name Daryna
- 85 babies named Daryna: U.S. records list 85 babies given the name Daryna from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Daryna Mean?
Daryna is a Ukrainian feminine name generally treated as a form of Daria, the feminine of Darius. The name reaches back through Greek Dareios and Latin Darius to Old Persian Dārayavauš, a compound of dāraya- ("to hold, to keep") and vahu- ("good"). The literal sense is "holding firm the good," customarily rendered as "possessor of good." The name is not related to the modern Persian word daryā, "sea," which resembles it only by coincidence.
Daryna Name History & Origins
The name traveled into Europe through the Achaemenid Persian kings called Darius - Dārayavauš in Old Persian, Dareios in Greek, Darius in Latin - whose reigns are described in Greek histories. Because the name was carried in Greek and Latin texts, it entered the naming stock of Christian Europe.
Its use as a woman's name among the Slavs was reinforced by Saint Daria of Rome, a third-century martyr put to death with her husband Chrysanthus; both are venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches. From the Slavic forms that grew out of that devotion - Russian Дарья (Darya), Ukrainian Дарія (Dariia), Belarusian Дар'я (Darya) - Ukrainian also has Дарина (Daryna), a form built with the ending -yna found in other Ukrainian women's names such as Kateryna and Yaryna.
The specific route by which Daryna took shape - whether as a familiar or diminutive form of Dariia or as a parallel popular form - is not clearly recorded, and the name is best understood as a Ukrainian development within the Daria family rather than as a separate name with its own independent origin.
How Popular is the Name Daryna?
Daryna has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2011. Its best rank was #8,298 in 2011.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,492 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #9,047 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #16,118 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #14,779 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #17,104 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #11,217 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2013 | #17,203 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #9,245 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2011 | #8,298 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2010 | #15,444 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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