Zelta

Last seen for girls in 1965 at #6,539

Peak · girls
1916 · 11 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
164
since 1915

Zelta over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zelta has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201930peak #2,658, 1916girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1928#4,1956
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1925#3,3629
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1923#3,3509
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five girls were named Zelta! It came in at #3,434, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1924, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Zelta is popular in 1930

No state had 5 or more girls named Zelta in 1930, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zelta
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1965
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1916 at #2,658 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1924, 8 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 94,939
  • Highest: 1 in 94,939 girls born in 1916 were named Zelta (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,033 girls born in 1965 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 40.2% of all girls named Zelta (66) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s42#2,658 (1916)#3,346
1920s66#3,152 (1922)#3,612
1930s32#3,226 (1931)#3,748
1940s13#3,503 (1940)#4,077
1950s6#5,148 (1954)#5,148
1960s5#6,539 (1965)#6,539

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.

Zelta in 1930

girls
#4,047
6 births · 1 in 187,655 girls

Top girls' names in 1930

  1. #1Mary64,153
  2. #2Betty38,240
  3. #3Dorothy30,411
  4. #4Helen19,913
  5. #5Margaret18,350
  6. #6Barbara18,279
  7. #7Patricia15,751
  8. #8Joan15,478
  9. #9Doris15,464
  10. #10Ruth14,942
  11. #4,047Zelta6
More about 1930

girls

1,125,927 girls got a published name in 1930; 1 in 187,655 of them was named Zelta, which outranked 22.9% of the 5,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zelta
  1. #3,658Zilla7
  2. #3,658Zilphia7
  3. #3,658Zoa7
  4. #4,047Zelta6
  5. #4,047Aaron6
  6. #4,047Adda6
  7. #4,047Adelma6
  8. #4,550Adalene5
  9. #4,550Adean5
  10. #4,550Adelfa5

Tied with 502 names at #4,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1929
Risers
  1. ↑ 701Claudette#1,642 → #941
  2. ↑ 583Ardeth#1,212 → #629
  3. ↑ 445Julianne#1,339 → #894
  4. ↑ 376Sonja#1,223 → #847
  5. ↑ 374Armida#1,174 → #800
Fallers
  1. ↓ 348Ingrid#941 → #1,289
  2. ↓ 315Coralie#895 → #1,210
  3. ↓ 229Elenor#981 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 229Mammie#981 → #1,210
  5. ↓ 226Sibyl#902 → #1,128

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

See the top 100 for 1930 →