Zelia

Where Zelia comes from

Zelia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1857
    Zelia Nuttall born
    American archaeologist and anthropologist
  2. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #693
    11 babies named Zelia — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1919
    Zelia Aumere born
    Estonian violinist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zelia Nuttall · American archaeologist and anthropologist, 1857–1933
  • Zelia Aumere · Estonian violinist, 1919–1998

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.