Zela is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Zela in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Zela in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Zela by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Zela ranks at #9,905. That means there are 9,904 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zela.
Is the name Zela a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1897 – at that time, it landed at position 869 with 12 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Zela is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Zela, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Zela, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 11 parents welcomed a new Zela to earth that year. That makes Zela ranking on position 7,858 among newborn girls in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Zela who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
Meeting a woman or girl named Zela is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Zela can be found in only two: Texas and West Virginia. No other state currently has residents named Zela. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Zela living in one state or another (if your name is Zela and you live outside of Texas or West Virginia, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Zela is in West Virginia, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in West Virginia, only 0.00075% of all female residents are named Zela – that’s just one in 134,107! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 22 women with that name. So, if your name is Zela, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Zela is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zela and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zela, you can simply say:
Zebra
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zela
Zela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
E
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
E
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zela sounds like this:
