Entry № 11927 · French origin

Zélie Zélie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZAY-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Diligent (Saint Zélie Martin, mother of Saint Thérèse)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "diligent (saint zélie martin, mother of saint thérèse)".

Zélie is the French feminine of Solene/Zealot — from the Greek zēlōtēs (diligent, zealous, eager). A modern French Catholic revival name. Children of Blood and Bone (2018) — Tomi Adeyemi's fantasy series; the protagonist Zélie Adebola is a teenage maji whose powers were stolen by the Orïshan king; the novel sold 1+ million copies, won the Andre Norton Award, and is in development as a major motion picture by Disney.

Diligent (Saint Zélie Martin, mother of Saint Thérèse) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Zélie
Transliteration
Zélie
Pronunciation
/ ˈzeɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zélie stands.

Zélie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zélies before her.

Real people
Saint Zélie Martin
Mother of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
1831 – 1877
In fiction
Zélie Adebola
Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone.
2018

Names connected to Zélie.

The number behind Zélie.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zélie reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.