Zlatka
Just 38 Polish women carry it, so most people here will never meet one, and no girls have been given it in years. Slavic at root, it means "gold", a small golden one.
Zlatka Pronunciation
Zlatka is pronounced ZLAHT-kah (/ˈzlatka/).
What Zlatka means
Where Zlatka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zlatka grows from Slavic zlato, gold. The name gives back its meaning without much digging: gold, the golden one, and in a fonder register małe złoto, a little gold. Its shorter sister is Zlata, the plain variant that runs across many Slavic languages.
The root shows up everywhere once you notice it. Polish złoty names both the coin and the colour, and Czech has zlatý for golden. A child called Zlatka stands inside that family of words for the precious metal.
The sense of gold as something dear, a term for a beloved person, attached itself to the name over generations. Slavic speakers have long called a loved one their gold. Zlatka reads that way to an ear tuned to the language. Say it at roll call in a Polish class register and the diminutive ending -ka does its familiar work.
Zlatka is small. It carries the same root as Zlata and the same short meaning, gold.
How many people are named Zlatka
1 in 593259 women in Poland is named Zlatka. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6414 among female names.