Classified as an early beauty, Zelda has long and often been used as such for characters in books and films. Since 1986, Zelda has been a prime Nintendo name, as in the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

This Welsh surname was taken up as a first in the English-speaking world in the early twentieth century, originally as a nickname for someone gray-haired. The original Welsh nickname was Llwyd, pronounced LHOO-eed, and is the Welsh word for the color.

English surname that's very rarely found as a first name. The Colorado city was named after Horace Greeley, the nineteenth-century congressman and founder of the New-York Tribune.

An attractive Italian color and rock word name that doesn't sound anything like its meaning.

Sweet and southern-feeling, maybe thanks to Horton Foote, author of Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful, not to mention the Dr. Seuss connection.

A surname and first name in Wales, similar to (but less familiar than) Lloyd.

A variation of Gray — which itself is trending in the forms Gray, Grey, Grayson, Greyson, Grayden, and more — that is surprisingly yet to be on parents' radars. Grayer is the name of a young boy in the novel and movie The Nanny Diaries.

Comes with a monocle.

Cute and quirky Zeldy adds some extra zip to Zelda — which is making its way back up the charts after decades out of the Top 1000.