Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Zarin isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zarin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 242
- 122 boys · 120 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 589 as a first name in 2020; 274 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zarin’s family of names
In Russian usage, Zarin as a surname is a transliteration of Зарин.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zarin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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