# Zelma (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zelma/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,936 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 112 / 16,824 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 19,553 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,498 |
| 2013 | 5 | 19,242 |
| 2014 | 6 | 16,482 |
| 2015 | 13 | 8,926 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,865 |
| 2017 | 7 | 14,104 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,405 |
| 2019 | 14 | 8,132 |
| 2020 | 10 | 10,237 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,969 |
| 2022 | 12 | 9,052 |
| 2023 | 14 | 8,052 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,922 |
| 2025 | 16 | 7,128 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 5 | 4,388 |
| 1916 | 5 | 4,531 |
| 1917 | 10 | 2,729 |
| 1918 | 8 | 3,366 |
| 1919 | 6 | 4,165 |
| 1921 | 12 | 2,631 |
| 1922 | 9 | 3,250 |
| 1924 | 5 | 4,968 |
| 1926 | 6 | 4,198 |
| 1928 | 6 | 4,149 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,541 |
| 1934 | 8 | 2,972 |
| 1937 | 5 | 4,020 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,967 |
| 1944 | 6 | 3,429 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.