Zelda

What Zelda means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zelda yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #648 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zelda?

US: Falling: down from #648 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1240 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 526 girls got the name (#558 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,900 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,665 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OK (0.54 per 1,000 girls), AZ (0.39 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.38 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Zelda is #832 in the US and #922 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zelda were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zeldy8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zelda

Girls

• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Adaline#208Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Emmeline#922Editor’s note Down from #810 in 2015 to #922 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zelda’s. Rank is US 2025.