Zarina
Zarina was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,325 among girls’ names; 1,612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Zarina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zarina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zarina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zarina is “a female given name.”
From Tatar Зара (Zara). Cognate with Persian زر (zar, “gold”), زرین (zarin, “golden”), Old Church Slavonic злато (zlato), and Russian зо́лото (zóloto).
/zəˈɹinə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zarina?
#2,325 among girls’ names, 2025
Zarina fell from #2,079 in 2015 to #2,325 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.2 to 49.2 per million.
95 babies in 2015, the peak
Zarina peaked in 2015, when 95 girls were given it, #2,079 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,325 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,346 | 48.8 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,673 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,755 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,890 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,889 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,890 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,740 | 37.0 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,924 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,593 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,079 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,468 | 41.4 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,699 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,483 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,913 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,566 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,477 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,756 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,804 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,702 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,430 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,282 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,413 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,374 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,682 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,178 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,570 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,062 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,893 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,058 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,504 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,243 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,945 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,474 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,420 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,491 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,278 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,683 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,246 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,607 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,452 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,289 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,819 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,219 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,406 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,909 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,057 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,606 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,479 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,766 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,552 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,318 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #7,009 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,619 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zarina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zarina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zarina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zarina, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,612 Americans ever recorded as Zarina. The median Zarina alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,482 people named Zarina (2,474 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 65 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 203 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 856 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zarina born?
The states with the most babies named Zarina are California, Texas and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,741 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,202 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,542 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #2,417 | 0.9× |
Where Zarina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zarina is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zarina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,581 babies since 1880, Zarina is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 123 babies (64%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zarina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zarina and names like it
- Compare Zarina and ZariannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZarina peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zarina since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Zarina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zarina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.