Zelda

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Zelda is ranked 748th among girls in 2024 (376 births). Its best rank was 376th, in 1911.

Rank in 2024: #748down 44 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3760.02% of girls
Peak year: 2020526 births
Best rank: #376in 1911
Since 1880: 16,406people given the name

Babies named Zelda, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

16,406 girls have been named Zelda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 526 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 2010s alone account for 18%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Zelda
1880s	62
1890s	254
1900s	595
1910s	1,854
1920s	2,376
1930s	1,650
1940s	1,074
1950s	1,160
1960s	1,265
1970s	306
1980s	154
1990s	144
2000s	391
2010s	2,889
2020s	2,232

In 2020, its biggest year

Zelda was the 559th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Zelda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.