Zelma
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#7,128
down −206 places
2025 births
16
down −1 births
All-time births
16,824
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1919
- 488 births
- Best rank
- #216
- in 1902
- First recorded
- 1880
- #387 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1926
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 139 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1919488#287Peak
- 1915487#266
- 1917477#283
- 1918471#294
- 1922467#296
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #216 in 1902 · peak births 488 in 1919
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
112 boys · 16,824 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Zelma has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.