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Zarina name meaning

“golden”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
Z
Origin
Persian
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1970s: 8.6%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s8.6%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
5

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Zarina

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: ZMeaning beautyPersian origin

Zarina is a girl's name from Persian meaning 'golden'.

What does Zarina mean?

Golden

In Malay: keemasan

#Beauty

Sources (1)

About the name Zarina

Zarina comes from the Persian word zarīn, 'golden'. It is used in Uzbek, Kazakh, Urdu and Malay. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 4,357 baby girls. Zarinah is a common alternative spelling.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginPersian
SyllablesZa-ri-na
First letterMalay Names starting with Z

Zarina in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 4,357 · 8.6%
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Zarina as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Zarina

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Zarina · behindthename.com · meaning

Names with a related meaning

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