Zelta

Last seen for girls in 1965 at #6,539

Peak · girls
1916 · 11 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
164
since 1915

Zelta over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zelta has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201916peak #2,658, 1916girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1965#6,5395
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1931#3,2268
1930#4,0476
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1928#4,1956
1927#4,8055
1926#3,2699
1925#3,3629
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1923#3,3509
1922#3,15210
1921#3,16410
1920#3,5988
1919#3,00510
1918#4,2916
1917#3,3448
1916#2,65811
1915#3,4347
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five girls were named Zelta! It came in at #3,434, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1924, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Zelta
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1965
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1916 at #2,658 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1924, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 94,939
  • Highest: 1 in 94,939 girls born in 1916 were named Zelta (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,033 girls born in 1965 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 40.2% of all girls named Zelta (66) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s42#2,658 (1916)#3,346
1920s66#3,152 (1922)#3,612
1930s32#3,226 (1931)#3,748
1940s13#3,503 (1940)#4,077
1950s6#5,148 (1954)#5,148
1960s5#6,539 (1965)#6,539

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zelta in 1916

girls
#2,658
11 births · 1 in 94,939 girls

Top girls' names in 1916

  1. #1Mary61,438
  2. #2Helen32,661
  3. #3Dorothy27,418
  4. #4Margaret24,953
  5. #5Ruth23,189
  6. #6Mildred15,633
  7. #7Anna15,228
  8. #8Elizabeth14,940
  9. #9Frances13,746
  10. #10Virginia12,487
  11. #2,658Zelta11
More about 1916

girls

1,044,334 girls got a published name in 1916; 1 in 94,939 of them was named Zelta, which outranked 48.5% of the 5,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zelta
  1. #2,498Wynne12
  2. #2,498Zelphia12
  3. #2,498Zilphia12
  4. #2,658Zelta11
  5. #2,658Adalene11
  6. #2,658Adena11
  7. #2,658Adrian11
  8. #2,833Adair10
  9. #2,833Adelfa10
  10. #2,833Adria10

Tied with 174 names at #2,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1915
Risers
  1. 567Trinidad#1,317#750
  2. 388Coral#1,367#979
  3. 377Coletta#1,317#940
  4. 370Clifford#1,285#915
  5. 327Maida#1,231#904
Fallers
  1. 364Louis#934#1,298
  2. 354Herminia#944#1,298
  3. 346Gertha#900#1,246
  4. 344Lahoma#934#1,278
  5. 310Hassie#900#1,210

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1916