Zelinda

Last seen for girls in 2004 at #16,099

Peak · girls
1951 · 11 births
Debut · girls
11 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
47
since 1951

Zelinda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zelinda has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201952peak #3,284, 1951girls
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five girls were named Zelinda! It came in at #3,284, and was given to 11 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1953, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Zelinda is popular in 1952

No state had 5 or more girls named Zelinda in 1952, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zelinda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2004
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 1951 at #3,284 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1953, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 163,714
  • Highest: 1 in 163,714 girls born in 1951 were named Zelinda (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 367,250 girls born in 2004 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 68.1% of all girls named Zelinda (32) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s32#3,284 (1951)#4,431
1960s5#6,567 (1961)#6,567
1970s0——
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1990s5#13,386 (1995)#13,386
2000s5#16,099 (2004)#16,099

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zelinda in 1952

girls
#4,908
6 births · 1 in 309,056 girls

Top girls' names in 1952

  1. #1Linda67,082
  2. #2Mary65,629
  3. #3Patricia53,101
  4. #4Deborah49,811
  5. #5Susan41,348
  6. #6Barbara39,864
  7. #7Nancy31,739
  8. #8Karen28,956
  9. #9Debra26,832
  10. #10Sandra26,097
  11. #4,908Zelinda6
More about 1952

girls

1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 309,056 of them was named Zelinda, which outranked 23.2% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zelinda
  1. #4,483Zara7
  2. #4,483Zenia7
  3. #4,483Zondra7
  4. #4,908Zelinda6
  5. #4,908Aaron6
  6. #4,908Adene6
  7. #4,908Adonna6
  8. #5,563Adaline5
  9. #5,563Adean5
  10. #5,563Adelfa5

Tied with 654 names at #4,908; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1951
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,501Pandora#3,284 → #783
  2. ↑ 368Lise#1,314 → #946
  3. ↑ 353Vanessa#656 → #303
  4. ↑ 334Dorinda#1,170 → #836
  5. ↑ 332Mitzi#928 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 380Rhona#988 → #1,368
  2. ↓ 342Sharleen#765 → #1,107
  3. ↓ 270Enid#908 → #1,178
  4. ↓ 237Allyn#988 → #1,225
  5. ↓ 230Sheron#908 → #1,138

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1952 →