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 parents choose Zlata
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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Lubusz
+113%1 in 1,602 babies
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Lower Silesian
+98%1 in 1,727 babies
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West Pomeranian
+58%1 in 2,165 babies
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Subcarpathian
−89%1 in 30,141 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−76%1 in 14,359 babies
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Lublin
−73%1 in 12,834 babies
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Lubusz+113% 31 born1 in 1,602 babies+113%
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Lower Silesian+98% 91 born1 in 1,727 babies+98%
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West Pomeranian+58% 39 born1 in 2,165 babies+58%
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Masovian+45% 150 born1 in 2,362 babies+45%
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Łódź+37% 51 born1 in 2,485 babies+37%
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Greater Poland+33% 84 born1 in 2,562 babies+33%
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Pomeranian−19% 35 born1 in 4,209 babies−19%
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Silesian−19% 54 born1 in 4,215 babies−19%
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Holy Cross−32% 11 born1 in 5,039 babies−32%
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Opole−33% 9 born1 in 5,122 babies−33%
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Lesser Poland−41% 39 born1 in 5,818 babies−41%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−53% 15 born1 in 7,292 babies−53%
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Podlaskie−64% 7 born1 in 9,398 babies−64%
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Lublin−73% 8 born1 in 12,834 babies−73%
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Warmian-Masurian−76% 5 born1 in 14,359 babies−76%
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Subcarpathian−89% 4 born1 in 30,141 babies−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 Yehudit23
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#1509 Zina23
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#1510 Zlata23
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#1511 Anette22
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#1512 Arnika22