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[Opinions] What kind of person does the name Zarina make you think of?
It is one of my favorite names. What do you think of it? It is Persian but common in Slavic countries especially Kazakhstan.

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I've always adored Zarina. It's a majestic name. It'd suit an erudite princess who is esteemed because of her kindness.
I'm really warming up to the name lately 😊It makes me think of a princess, it's exquisite!
Zarina is such a beautiful name! I think of a kind, clever girl who always has her nose in a book. I wish it was a name I could use. :)
A person with parents whose traditional homeland and/or language meant they could choose this name. Zarina could also be an elaboration of Sarah, or a modified spelling of Czarina. I don't much like it, but it's not too bad.
I’m a sucker for Z names, I think it’s very sweet.
I once read a science fiction novel when I was a kid where there was a memorable minor character in the story named Zarina, who was a glamorous and hilarious psychic scam-artist. So I think of a very outgoing, eccentric, mystical blonde woman. It's a great name.
Kazakhstan is not Slavic countryZarina is okay, I prefer Zarema
They speak a cyrillic language, which is why I thought that?
Slavic: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Czechia, Macedonia
also Rusyns, Sorbs
Maybe other things I forgotNot Slavic, use Cyrillic: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Chechnya
And regions Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Yakutia, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Dagestan, Crimea etc
Romania and Moldova also is not Slavic (Romanian lanuague in Transnistria is used in Cyrillic)Slavic is language family . It is not alphabet.
That's interesting because I heard that Russian is more commonly spoken in Kazakhstan than their state language, especially among young people. I wonder why that is.
Maybe you heard that long time ago? Possibly true in 90s or 2000s but now young people speak more Kazakh. Though many also speak Russian. It was because Soviet influence, older people knew native language and probably Russian, younger people knew language, that USSR forced on them. But even if all Kazakhs only spoke in Russian, not Kazakhs nor Kazakh language are Slavic.