Zarina
A Slavic name meaning "golden". Fewer than 500 women in Poland carry it and only a handful of girls get it each year, so most Poles will never meet a Zarina.
Zarina Pronunciation
Zarina is pronounced zah-REE-nah (/zaˈrina/).
What Zarina means
Where Zarina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zarina reaches Polish through Slavic roots, and the meaning recorded for it is plain: golden. In Polish that reads as złota, a feminine adjective closer to the colour of something prized than to the cold metal. The Slavic word for gold, złoto, sits right beside it.
A short name, three syllables. It arrives without a ready-made diminutive, since no standard Polish nickname has settled onto it, so on a school register it appears whole, Zarina and nothing shortened. Children with longer names get trimmed to Kasia or Zosia. This one stays as written.
The sense of golden points less to wealth than to brightness, the way gold catches light. A person named Zarina wears that meaning without translation, and Polish keeps the word ready in złota, in złoto, the everyday gold of a wedding band.
How many people are named Zarina
1 in 51588 women in Poland is named Zarina. 437 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1415 among female names.
Zarina's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1402 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021.
Where Zarina is most popular
Zarina is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 girls born+904%
Zarina as a middle name
Zarina is a first name for 437 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2678th, between Yulia (9) and Zula (9).
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#2676 Yoko9
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#2677 Yulia9
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#2678 Zarina9
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#2679 Zula9
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#2680 Śnieżana9