Zelle

Where Zelle comes from

Zelle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    Debut at its peak, #1,278
    #1,278 among girls with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 2024
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Zelle hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.