Zelma

Where Zelma comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Zelma.

  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Zelma through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls, with 19 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #216
    189 babies named Zelma, its best rank.
  3. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,202.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, variant of Selma.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Zelma in Wikidata.

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.