Zelda name - Meaning of Zelda
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- Gender
- Feminine
- Lucky Number
- 3
- Usage
- Yiddish, English, Germanic
- Pronounced
- ZEL-də
- Zelda Meaning
- Feminine form of Selig. Short form of Griselda. Zelda is a diminutive of Griselda. Griselda originates in Germanic languages and means "fighting in darkness". Some sources also suggest the meaning "stone-grey". Griselda was the name of several operas by different composers, including Vivaldi. She also appears as a character in tales by Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer. In the United States the name is rather rare and considered old-fashioned today.
Zelda Related Names
Variants: Zelde
Masculine Forms Zelig, Selig
Other Languages, Griselda (Literature), Grizel (Scottish), Griselda (Spanish)
Masculine Forms: Zelig, Selig
Other Languages, Griselda (Literature), Grizel (Scottish), Griselda (Spanish)
Other Languages:, Griselda (Literature), Grizel (Scottish), Griselda (Spanish)
Zelda Celebrities
Zelda Fitzgerald - writer, Zelda Popkin - writer, Zelda Rubinstein - actress,
