Zelda

female

"Blessed; Happy"

Often treated as a diminutive of longer Germanic names, it later stabilized as an independent given name in English usage.

Popularity History of Zelda

Full SSA rank history from 1880 to 2024

#748Top 1000

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Selected Year Rank

#748

Zelda was nationally ranked in 2024.

Change Vs Previous Year

-44

lower than 2023

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, latest release 2024. Names used fewer than 5 times in a given year are not ranked.

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2 ideas

Zel

Nickname

“Grace”

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OriginGerman, Yiddish

Syllables2

Length5 letters

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