Zelda - how 'out there'?

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DH and I apparently do not agree on any girl names. I mean ANY. Apart from maybe this one. My only doubts are that it's a bit too off-the-wall. I want to avoid anything top ten/massively popular - but not to the extent of everyone who hears it thinking "you're called what now?!"

I guess I'm less interested in people's opinions (it's always a question of taste, and I definitely LIKE it) than how weird you think it is ( if it's at all possible to distinguish those two things).

So where would you place it on a scale of 1 (Emily/Olivia/simple/classic/boring) to 10 (Hepzibah/Andromeda/unusual/mad)?

The bully from Grange Hill was Imelda.

I immediately thought of Fitzgerald.

I'd put it as a 6. Love the name, its unusual but not "out there".

I’m 43 and have a friend is called Zelda so I think it’s totally normal

I know a Zelda (named for Fitzgerald!). She’s in her 40’s.

I like it.

Reminds me of Zelda Fitzgerald. Although she had a bit of a sad life.
Nice name, not particularly out there.

I think Robin Williams’ daughter is Zelda.

When was the video game big? Is it still 'a thing'? Just wondering if it's more likely to be er friend's parents who make that connection than contemporaries, if that makes sense.

The game is still a thing, it's a long running series, extremely popular and some of the best selling games in the world.

I like it and I don’t think it’s out there. I think of Zelda Fitzgerald. Not heard of the game. Maybe a six for unusualness.

Horrible, just awful

A bit on the ‘out there’ side but totally fabulous !

I thought of Fitzgerald immediately and didn't think of the Nintendo game at all, even though DS is playing it at the moment.

I immediately thought of terrahawks too but that probably won’t be an issue with younger people.

I like it, but I've never been near a video game and that's my first association.

Still it's phonetic (easy to spell), nice set of sounds, begins with the ever-cool letter Z. You mention Hepzebah and it kind of has a similar feel to me, but I often roll DS around a Methodist cemetery and there are a few of both among the Ezekiels and Zebediahs....all niche popular nowadays.

I'd rate it a 6, but I know some flipping nuts girls names.

Sci-fi/computer gaming/witch kind of name.

I think Fitzgerald first too.

I know a (lovely) 13yo Zelda.

I'd score it 5/10. Easy to spell, easy to pronounce. An excellent name.

I quite like it, but my Nintendo-obsessed DC has made me only see it in gaming connotations.

apparently the man who wrote the games named the character after Zelda Fitzgerald (DS informs me)
I'd rate it at 7, quite acceptable score

I think it’s fine. I wouldn’t think of the games.

The gaming connection doesn't particularly bother me, but I'm completely ignorant of video games do I can't really judge how the names sounds in that context. To me, it's: roaring 20s, intelligent, bit tragic but on a sort of wronged-woman, feisty, exotic way. I don't know whether other people would get "fairy princess" or "street fighter" or something in between the two or what!

If that's the zone you're in, what about Anaïs, Isolde, Simone, Mina, something of that ilk?

(Go for Zelda, if you like it though)

Not crazy but I'd think you were massive dancers

Gamers. Not dancers!

easy to spell and pronounce, good points
whereas Anais often mis-spelt and mis pronounced, even by the parents who chose it, according to a recent thread