Zlata
Slavic for "golden". It was absent from Poland until the 2020s, and now sits just inside the top 500: still uncommon enough that meeting a Zlata is the kind of thing you remember.
Zlata Pronunciation
Zlata is pronounced ZLAH-tah (/ˈzlata/).
What Zlata means
Where Zlata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zlata grows from Slavic roots, from the word for gold that survives in Ukrainian and Russian alike. The short meaning is simple: golden. Among Ashkenazi Jewish families the same name traveled through Yiddish, where Zlata served as a warm equivalent of the Hebrew Golda, and it kept its shine across those communities.
In Poland the name reads as złota, the feminine form of the adjective for gold. It has never been common on a Polish class register, so a girl named Zlata usually stands alone when the teacher reads down the list.
Ukrainian audiences know the singer Zlata Ohnevich, who represented Ukraine at Eurovision in 2013 and finished third with the song "Gravity." Her stage name set the word for gold on an international scoreboard. The origin stays close to the surface here. Zlata means golden, and złota says the same in Polish.
How many people are named Zlata
1 in 3152 women in Poland is named Zlata. 7,157 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #422 among female names.
Zlata's popularity over time
126 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #228 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2011.
Where Zlata is most popular
Zlata is most popular in Lubusz, 113% above the national average (31 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+98%) and West Pomeranian (+58%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Warmian-Masurian, 89% and 76% below average respectively.
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Lubusz31 girls born+113%
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Lower Silesian91 girls born+98%
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West Pomeranian39 girls born+58%
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Masovian150 girls born+45%
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Łódź51 girls born+37%
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Greater Poland84 girls born+33%
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Pomeranian35 girls born−19%
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Silesian54 girls born−19%
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Świętokrzyskie11 girls born−32%
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Opole9 girls born−33%
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Lesser Poland39 girls born−41%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian15 girls born−53%
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Podlaskie7 girls born−64%
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Lublin8 girls born−73%
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Warmian-Masurian5 girls born−76%
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Subcarpathian4 girls born−89%
Zlata as a middle name
Zlata is a first name for 7,157 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1510th, between Zina (23) and Anette (22).
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1508
23Yehudit
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1509
23Zina
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151023Zlata
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1511
22Anette
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1512
22Arnika