Given name
Zerlina
“of the beautiful dawn”
Zerlina is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “of the beautiful dawn.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “of the beautiful dawn.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zerlina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 58
- 0 boys · 58 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 140 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zerlina’s family of names
Zerlina has a related form in Zaralinda. Zerlina has a related form in Zerla. Zerlina has a related form in Zerlean.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zerlina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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