People with the name Irina have a deep inner desire to use their abilities in leadership, and to have personal independence. They would rather focus on large, important issues, and delegate the details.
Created by the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli for a character in his 12th-century epic The Knight in the Panther’s Skin. Rustaveli derived it from the Middle Persian phrase نیست اندر جهان (nist andar jahan) meaning “unlike any other in the world” or “unique”. In the poem Nestan-Darejan is a princess loved by Tariel.
Meaning unknown. This name was used by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen for the central character in his play Peer Gynt (1867). Ibsen based the story on an earlier Norwegian folktale Per Gynt.