Zlatan
Slavic at root, from a word for gold: the name reads as "golden". It stays rare in Poland, carried by just over 60 people, all of them men, with only a boy or two given it in a typical recent year.
Zlatan Pronunciation
Zlatan is pronounced ZLAH-tahn (/ˈzlatan/).
What Zlatan means
Where Zlatan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zlatan grows from Slavic soil. The root is zlato, the old word for gold, and Polish keeps it alive in złoto and in the adjective złoty. A child named Zlatan is named for the metal, or for the color of it. The meaning stays plain because the name and the word for gold never drifted apart.
Across the South Slavic languages a speaker hears gold in it before anything else. That sense sits closer to the surface than in most names. Even the Polish currency, the złoty, grew from the same zlato, so the root turns up on coins and banknotes as well as on people.
Read a class register in a Polish school. Zlatan stands among the Bartoszes and the Kacpers, the boy whose name still holds the old word for złoto.
How many people are named Zlatan
1 in 338828 men in Poland is named Zlatan. 63 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4649 among male names.
Zlatan's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1900 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Where Zlatan is most popular
Zlatan is most popular in Lower Silesian, 817% above the national average (4 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+217%).
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Lower Silesian4 boys born+817%
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Silesian2 boys born+217%
Zlatan as a middle name
Zlatan is a first name for 63 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2468th, between Zayn (15) and Zoran (15).
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#2466 Zachariusz15
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#2467 Zayn15
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#2468 Zlatan15
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#2469 Zoran15
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#2470 Świerad15