Zilpha

Where Zilpha comes from

The dictionaries list Zilpha as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #612
    17 babies named Zilpha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,279.
  4. 1919
    Zilpha Grant born
    British swimmer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Zilpha Grant · British swimmer, 1919–2011

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.