Girl · #6838 in 2025

Zelma

Zelma: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Zelma per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1904. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Zelma has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 1% of its 1904 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.