Meaning not yet researched.
Zelda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 328 in 2025. Its best rank was #376 in 1911.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #376 in 1911; #832 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zelda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#832 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1911, at #376.
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Zelda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 328 girls in 2025. Peak: #376 in 1911 · most girls in one year: 526 (2020).
In 2025, 328 US girls were named Zelda, making it the 832nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 83 places from #749 in 2024. That is 49 fewer than the 377 girls named Zelda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #376, reached in 1911. The most girls given the name in a single year was 526, in 2020. For comparison, it was #649 in 2015 and #889 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zelda in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 16,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,889 babies named Zelda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,321 US girls were named Zelda; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 526. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,900 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zelda ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #545 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Selda and Zilda are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Selda (86), Zilda (66).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zelda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 8 | #545 | #890 |
| Arizona | 11 | #631 | #569 |
| New York | 25 | #678 | #819 |
| California | 44 | #715 | #641 |
| Oregon | 5 | #728 | #584 |
| Maryland | 7 | #729 | #774 |
| Washington | 9 | #729 | #592 |
| Colorado | 7 | #788 | #605 |
| Illinois | 12 | #794 | #982 |
| Texas | 38 | #798 | #597 |
| Ohio | 12 | #800 | #737 |
| Alabama | 6 | #818 | #448 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #844 | #940 |
| Georgia | 12 | #851 | #1,055 |
| Missouri | 6 | #923 | #494 |
| Virginia | 8 | #934 | #947 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #972 | #710 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #1,000 | #869 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #1,000 | #620 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #1,012 | #1,119 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,030 | #680 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,207 | #479 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,324 | #798 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 328 | #832 | — | — |
| 2024 | 377 | #749 | — | — |
| 2023 | 403 | #705 | — | — |
| 2022 | 435 | #672 | — | — |
| 2021 | 492 | #608 | — | — |
| 2020 | 526 | #559 | — | — |
| 2019 | 436 | #665 | — | — |
| 2018 | 442 | #668 | — | — |
| 2017 | 456 | #650 | — | — |
| 2016 | 426 | #688 | — | — |
| 2015 | 443 | #649 | — | — |
| 2014 | 214 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 2013 | 183 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,367 | — | — |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,598 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,657 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,717 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,063 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,722 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,746 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,983 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,620 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,650 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,285 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,847 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,063 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,333 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,963 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,676 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,896 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,147 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,750 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1967 | 105 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1966 | 117 | #943 | — | — |
| 1965 | 109 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1964 | 133 | #907 | — | — |
| 1963 | 171 | #795 | — | — |
| 1962 | 178 | #782 | — | — |
| 1961 | 169 | #808 | — | — |
| 1960 | 135 | #914 | — | — |
| 1959 | 142 | #865 | — | — |
| 1958 | 131 | #897 | — | — |
| 1957 | 127 | #906 | — | — |
| 1956 | 141 | #839 | — | — |
| 1955 | 120 | #898 | — | — |
| 1954 | 107 | #935 | — | — |
| 1953 | 107 | #914 | — | — |
| 1952 | 96 | #964 | — | — |
| 1951 | 88 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1950 | 101 | #889 | — | — |
| 1949 | 90 | #944 | — | — |
| 1948 | 108 | #844 | — | — |
| 1947 | 97 | #906 | — | — |
| 1946 | 122 | #740 | — | — |
| 1945 | 88 | #809 | — | — |
| 1944 | 111 | #717 | — | — |
| 1943 | 118 | #709 | — | — |
| 1942 | 106 | #733 | — | — |
| 1941 | 106 | #686 | — | — |
| 1940 | 128 | #621 | — | — |
| 1939 | 127 | #598 | — | — |
| 1938 | 145 | #569 | — | — |
| 1937 | 147 | #557 | — | — |
| 1936 | 124 | #594 | — | — |
| 1935 | 161 | #503 | — | — |
| 1934 | 189 | #471 | — | — |
| 1933 | 160 | #506 | — | — |
| 1932 | 197 | #470 | 5 | #4,283 |
| 1931 | 175 | #489 | — | — |
| 1930 | 225 | #450 | — | — |
| 1929 | 209 | #458 | — | — |
| 1928 | 233 | #448 | — | — |
| 1927 | 236 | #453 | — | — |
| 1926 | 231 | #444 | — | — |
| 1925 | 251 | #436 | — | — |
| 1924 | 250 | #442 | — | — |
| 1923 | 227 | #456 | — | — |
| 1922 | 251 | #417 | — | — |
| 1921 | 280 | #405 | — | — |
| 1920 | 208 | #472 | — | — |
| 1919 | 225 | #439 | — | — |
| 1918 | 250 | #416 | — | — |
| 1917 | 240 | #408 | — | — |
| 1916 | 258 | #389 | — | — |
| 1915 | 230 | #397 | — | — |
| 1914 | 159 | #427 | — | — |
| 1913 | 155 | #391 | — | — |
| 1912 | 134 | #400 | — | — |
| 1911 | 117 | #376 | — | — |
| 1910 | 86 | #431 | — | — |
| 1909 | 62 | #478 | — | — |
| 1908 | 86 | #390 | — | — |
| 1907 | 67 | #438 | — | — |
| 1906 | 64 | #433 | — | — |
| 1905 | 76 | #388 | — | — |
| 1904 | 68 | #396 | — | — |
| 1903 | 45 | #481 | — | — |
| 1902 | 38 | #527 | — | — |
| 1901 | 43 | #458 | — | — |
| 1900 | 46 | #503 | — | — |
| 1899 | 35 | #506 | — | — |
| 1898 | 38 | #509 | — | — |
| 1897 | 27 | #593 | — | — |
| 1896 | 31 | #552 | — | — |
| 1895 | 28 | #577 | — | — |
| 1894 | 25 | #596 | — | — |
| 1893 | 25 | #569 | — | — |
| 1892 | 15 | #795 | — | — |
| 1891 | 16 | #693 | — | — |
| 1890 | 14 | #757 | — | — |
| 1889 | 13 | #756 | — | — |
| 1888 | 11 | #835 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #894 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #928 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #905 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #834 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).