Entry № 11926 · Yiddish origin

Zelda Zelda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZEL-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yiddish
Meaning
"Blessed, happy"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Yiddish)

A name that means "blessed, happy".

The Nintendo video game series The Legend of Zelda (1986 onward), in which the princess Zelda is a recurring central figure, gave it a second life. Today Zelda sits in the U.S. top 600 and is rising fast.

Blessed. Zelda Fitzgerald, then the Princess of Hyrule.

The name in its native script.

Zelda
Transliteration
Zelda
Pronunciation
/ ˈzɛl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zelda stands.

Zelda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zeldas before her.

Real people
Zelda Fitzgerald
American writer and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1900 – 1948
Zelda Rubinstein
American actress, Poltergeist.
1933 – 2010
In fiction
Princess Zelda
Recurring princess of the Nintendo video game series.
1986 onward

Names connected to Zelda.

The number behind Zelda.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zelda reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.