Entry № 11904 · Persian origin

Zarina Zarina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zah-REE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Golden"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "golden".

Zarina (زرینه) comes from the Persian zar, meaning "gold" — "the golden one." Used widely across Central Asia, Russia, and the Persian-influenced world.

Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020) was the Indian-American printmaker.

Golden. The Persian-Russian convergence.

The name in its native script.

زرینه
Transliteration
Zarīna
Pronunciation
/ zəˈriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zarina stands.

Zarina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zarinas before her.

Real people
Zarina Hashmi
Indian-American printmaker.
1937 – 2020
In fiction
Zarina
Character in Disney's Tinker Bell.
2014 film

Names connected to Zarina.

The number behind Zarina.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zarina reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.