Baltazar — #2916 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Baltazar

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,697 babies named Baltazar between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Baltazar currently holds the #2916 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 59 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Baltazar performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 497 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Baltazar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 837 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Baltazar in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Baltazar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,697 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.