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Zelda

Pronounced /ˈzɛldə/

Rank in 2024
#745
Born in 2024
376
Peak year
2020 · #558
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Rising
00.10.20.30.418801900192019401960198020002020
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 376 girls were named Zelda, about 1 in every 4,290.
  • It peaked in 2020 with 526 babies, ranked #558.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 16,406 girls have been named Zelda since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Zelda per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 4,337 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Silent: 2,749 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,363 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 804 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 238 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 721 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,832 babies, 0.24 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Shortened from Griselda.

  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈzɛldə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Zelda, CC BY-SA 4.0.