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Can't shake the video game association. Sorry. It also makes me think of my aunt's now deceased dog. I have a hard time associating it w/ a real person.

I think of Aunt Zelda from Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Legend of Zelda before Pet Cemetery. But then, I'm not a Steven King fan. It sounds like it belongs in fiction more than real life, but there are a lot worse names.

I adore Zelda! It's zippy and zanily dignified.

Zelda isn't evil in the book OR the movie, that I know of. She was sick and decaying and scary to her sister, but I don't remember her being evil.

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I like it because of Zelda Fitzgerald, who was a spitfire. Replace that creepy image with the free-wheeling flapper one Fitzgerald provides, and you'll be good. :)

It just makes me think of the video games, but I think it's pretty and distinctive enough that people would very much come to identify it with the individual rather than the game if they got to know her.

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Zellie sounds like a strangely affectionate term zealots by other religious persons... "Oh, you'll have to ignore some of what Bob here says, he can be such a zellie." (this may be influenced by a book series I really enjoy)

I don't like Zelda, but I think Zellie and Zella are cute nns for Gisella

Zelda was my nn in college. I picked it for myself thinking it would never stick. It was the only one of the group which stuck through four years. Some people knew me only as Zelda. I loved it.

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Zelda is cool and vampy and awkwardly beautiful. Zellie is a darling nn. I have a soft spot for the formal Griselda too, but it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

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I heard a few years back that Keira Knightly had signed on to star in a biopic about F. Scott FitzGerald's wife, Zelda. But I haven't heard anything about it since then. I was hoping it would popularize the name, or at least give it a different association than the video game and now apparently a character in "Pet Sematary" (sic).

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Zelda Marion / Miriam / Maryam / Mary
Zelda Ruby
Zelda Frances
Zelda Lenore
Zelda Kirsten
Zelda Margot / Margaret / Marjorie
Zelda Vivien
Zelda Artemis
Zelda Jacobine
Zelda Morrigan ("mor-EE-gan")
Zelda Ruth
Zelda Imogen
Zelda Rhiannon
Zelda Gwyneth

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I never really liked the name until the past couple years after meeting my friend's grandmother, who is a wonderfully strong and compassionate woman, and hearing her sisters use her name many times over the week Ivisited them. Zelda sort of stuck in my head after that and I added it to my favorite Z names / guilty pleasures. I wouldn't use it unless it was to honor someone and then probably just as a middle name. My dad and brother are gamers so Zelda is associated with Ledged Of Zelda and I'd probably get teased by them.

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Zelda is a strong and regal name. Zellie makes a very cute nickname!

My dad let us watch that movie when I was like 7. My mom is still mad at him for it. I had nightmares for years. I think I know what sister you're talking about, and she was by far the scariest part to me. I don't remember her name being Zelda though, I thought it was Rachel. Maybe that's the other sister. Or I remember wrong. Either way, I don't associate Zelda with it at all. I only associate Zelda with the video game, and, while a good association, I think it's so strong that it makes Zelda pretty unusable. It really doesn't even seem like a real name to me, it's a video game character.

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Zella, on the other hand, I think is pretty. It was my great-grandma's name.

This message was edited 12/26/2012, 10:15 AM