Zelda

Where Zelda comes from

Shortened from Griselda.
— Wiktionary's entry for Zelda
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1900
    Zelda Fitzgerald born
    American writer
  3. 1911
    Peak, #374
    117 babies named Zelda — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,648.
  5. 1989
    Zelda Williams born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Zelda Williams · American actress, born 1989
  • Zelda Fitzgerald · American writer, 1900–1948
  • Zelda Rubinstein · American actress, 1933–2010
  • Zelda · Israeli poet, 1914–1984
  • Zelda Harris · American actress, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.