Zlata () is a female

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of South Slavic origin meaning "golden". It is common amongst all South Slavic countries in the

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, such as

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and

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. The name is popular in Bosnia because it is considered ethnically neutral amongst the three dominant Bosnian ethnicities:

Bosniaks The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

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and

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. The name is derived from the South Slavic word ''zlato'' - from the

Old Slavic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic ( ) is the first Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources. It belongs to the South Slavic subgroup of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-Europea ...

root ''zolto'' (gold). Notable people with the name include: * Zlata Adamovská (born 1959), Czech actress *

Zlata Bartl Zlata Bartl ( Dolac, 20 February 1920 – Koprivnica, 30 July 2008) was a Bosnian Croat scientist and the creator of Vegeta. Bartl finished school in Sarajevo and went to Zagreb to study natural sciences, engineering, medicine and health, biotechn ...

(1920–2008), Bosnian scientist * Zlata Bizova (1927–2013), Russian painter * Zlata Filipović (born 1980), Bosnian writer * Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990), Croatian writer *

Zlata Ognevich Zlata Leonidivna Ognevich (; born Inna Leonidivna Bordiuh, on 12 January 1986) is a Ukrainian singer and former politician. She represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song "Gravity", placing third. Ognevich ...

(born 1986), Ukrainian singer and politician * Zlata of Meglen (died 1795), Bulgarian saint *

Zlata Petković Zlata Petković ( sr-Cyrl, Злата Петковић; 11 February 1954 – 3 December 2012) was a Serbian actress, model, television host, singer and beauty pageant titleholder. She was Miss Yugoslavia 1971 and is best known for her role as Ma ...

(1954–2012), Serbian actress * Zlata Petrović (born 1962), Serbian singer * Zlata Razdolina (born 1959), Russian musician

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