| The girl name Zelma [ syll. zel-ma, ze-lma ] is pronounced ZEHLMah KEY. Zelma's language of origin is Celtic. It is predominantly used in English, Italian, and Romanian. Zelma is a form of the German, English, Italian, and Scandinavian Selma. Zelma is an uncommon baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1904, 0.068% of baby girls were named Zelma. It had a ranking of #218 then. The baby name has fallen from favor since then, and is of only irregular use today. Within all girl names in its family, Zelma was nevertheless the most frequently used in 2007. KEY: approx pronunciation for Zelma: Z as in "zee (Z.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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