Zarema
Only about 112 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one, and no girls were given it last year. Slavic at root, the name reads as "golden flower".
Zarema Pronunciation
Zarema is pronounced zah-RE-mah (/zaˈrɛma/).
What Zarema means
Where Zarema comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zarema comes to Poland along a Slavic path, though the name wears an Arabic colour. The short meaning attached to it is "golden flower," in Polish "złoty kwiat." The "golden" sense reads as a later gloss laid over a Slavic root.
The name has a famous literary bearer. Alexander Pushkin gave it to a woman in his 1823 poem The Fountain of Bakhchisarai. His Zarema lives in the Khan's harem, jealous and fierce, and the poem takes her grief seriously. Boris Asafyev built a ballet on the poem in 1934, and its dancer still performs as Zarema on the Mariinsky stage.
On a Polish class register, Zarema stands out. It has no standard diminutives and no cross-gender variant, so it arrives whole. The reader meets one form and one meaning: golden flower.
How many people are named Zarema
1 in 201284 women in Poland is named Zarema. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3229 among female names.