What do you think of this Slavic name?

[dreamer717]

Can you give me your honest opinions on the name Zaria? (Pronounced zahr-ee-uh)

It's a name of Slavic origin meaning princess.

Nice but I can think of three ways to say it which would be a problem for me.

I think it's lovely.

Should be good. Z is an unusual letter. The connotation of Zara Tindle makes your variation of that name sound aristocratic, as well as conventional. If you say it quickly, it's like Sylvia, two syllables with a bit of a twist to the sound.

It sounds a bit like Dahlia and Talia, which are also great names.
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It is lovely and I can't see any other way it could be pronounced.

I love it! I like Z names anyway and this one’s lovely.

That's what I thought but loads of people have asked me how to pronounce it! Some people pronounce it as "za-ry-ah" and some pronounce it "za-ree-a"

It's nice 👍

Lovely but I like Slavic names. I would even consider name like Xenya as to me it is the saint, not the warrior.

It’s nice.

I can’t see how else you’d say it, and it sounds like a longer version of Zara, so I can’t see anyone else would say it differently either

Xenya is great, partly because it reminds one of Enya, who is beautiful and talented.

Zaria to rhyme with barrier
Zaria similar to snarlier
Zaria to rhyme with Maria

I love it, I would definitely assume it was pronounced the way you put.

Lovely name

I love Zaria and Xenia, both lovely and not going to be shared by ten other kids at nursery.

Does it shorten to Zasha? just thinking how other slavic names shorten- eg Maria to Masha, Daria to Dasha - although i don't know if that happens so much in a non-slavic country?

I thought you were going to say marzanna!

it’s the female version of the word tsar (not tsarina, that’s a title) which is the Russian version of cesar. So how do you feel about Russia at the moment?