Zarina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘golden’
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 44 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/zəˈɹinə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Zarina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Kyrgyzstan it is the 68th most common given name.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 610
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 710
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zarina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 172 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 named Jarina, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Зарина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Jarina in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Muslim name, from Persian: ‘golden’. APPENDIX: INDIAN APPENDIX: CHINESE
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zarina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zarina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #944 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 71 | Jarina | 65 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #97 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | listed | Зарина | 18 |
| RU Russia | #191 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | register #144 | Зарина | 160 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #257 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 713 | listed | Зарина | 36 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #137 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 791 | 24K | Зарина | 53 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #68 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 606 | — | Зарина | 27 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #635 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Zarina | 9 |
| US United States | — | 2,482 | 1 in 134K | 2.5K | Zarina | 230 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Zarina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, s,:, (zareena): golden
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, golden thread
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Emperatriz
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Dorada
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
golden
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zarinab. 1937INIndian artist (1937–2020)
- Zarina Estrada Fernándezb. 1947MXMexican linguist
- Zarina Wahabb. 1959INIndian actress
- Zarina Bhimjib. 1963UGUgandan artist (born 1963)
- Zarina Jamalb. 1970PKbadminton player
- Zarina Baibatinab. 1984KZKazakhstani Paralympic judoka
- Zarina Qurbanovab. 1990AZAzerbaijani actress
- Zarina Raifovab. 1991KZKazakhstani judoka
- Zarina Karabaevab. 1999KZbadminton player
- Zarina ShukurGBPh.D. University of Nottingham 1999
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)74 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,468 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.6K | #1,978 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 79 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 31 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #6,468 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1999 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zarina?
- It depends on the language: in English /zəˈɹinə/ (Wiktionary); in Russian /zɐˈrʲinə/ (Wiktionary); in Malay /zarina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Where does the name Zarina come from?
- Muslim name, from Persian: ‘golden’. APPENDIX: INDIAN APPENDIX: CHINESE Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Zarina a male or female name?
- Zarina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset), Poland (dane.gov.pl) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What does the name Zarina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘golden’.
- What are other forms of the name Zarina?
- In the etymology graph, Zareen and Zerina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zarina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,482 people named Zarina in 2020, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Zarina compared with other names?
- In India, Zarina is the 944th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Zarina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 257 thousand people named Jarina in India, more than in any other country we hold.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zarinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zarina” — the 944th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.