Entry № 11988 · Slavic origin

Zlata Zlata — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZLAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Golden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "golden".

Zlata is the Slavic word for "golden" — used as a feminine name in Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Czech.

Zlata Filipović (born 1980) is the Bosnian author of Zlata's Diary — the war diary of an 11-year-old during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Golden. The Sarajevo diarist.

The name in its native script.

Злата
Transliteration
Zlata
Pronunciation
/ ˈzlɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zlata stands.

Zlata 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.

Zlatas before her.

Real people
Zlata Filipović
Bosnian author of Zlata's Diary.
born 1980
In fiction
Zlata
Common in Slavic fiction.

Names connected to Zlata.

The number behind Zlata.

6

The Nurturer

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