Zelda

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling (English) of Selda

Related Names

See Selda

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Zelda
Genitive:	Zeldas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Zelda
Genitive:	Zeldan
Partitive:	Zeldaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Zelda
Genitive:	Zeldas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Zelda
Genitive:	Zeldas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland:
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 26 January 2018
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 6 November 2019

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1865-1899
  • 1910-1929
  • 1940-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Östsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Zelda (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		595	998	595	996	0	2
Finland		n.a.	61	n.a.	61	0	0
Denmark		28	n.a.	28	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		1	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		61	n.a.	61	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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