Baltazar
Baltazar was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,801 among boys’ names; 2,743 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,270 Americans named Baltazar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baltazar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baltazar mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Baltazar is “a male given name”
From Balthazar.
/balˈta.zar/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baltazar?
#2,801 among boys’ names, 2025
Baltazar rose from #4,187 in 2015 to #2,801 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 26.3 per million.
59 babies in 2001, the peak
Baltazar peaked in 2001, when 59 boys were given it, #1,869 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,801 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,917 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,425 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,009 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,821 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,550 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,575 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,537 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,386 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,367 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,187 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,093 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,586 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,236 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,311 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,962 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,951 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,269 | 28.4 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,612 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,376 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,751 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,377 | 23.7 |
| 2003 | 58 | #1,984 | 29.4 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,251 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 59 | #1,869 | 30.4 |
| 2000 | 51 | #1,989 | 26.0 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,821 | 28.1 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,789 | 29.3 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,061 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,868 | 25.3 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,024 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,749 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,906 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,879 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,793 | 21.8 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,630 | 24.3 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,791 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,666 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,829 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,923 | 16.8 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,173 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,842 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,142 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,855 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,206 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,813 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 26 | #1,997 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,482 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,136 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,005 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,951 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,133 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,739 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,933 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 21 | #1,989 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,892 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,424 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,206 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,036 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,819 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,185 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,123 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,660 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,897 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,421 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,129 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,979 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,898 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,957 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,170 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,221 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,215 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,195 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,750 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,059 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,883 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,707 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,519 | 13.1 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,699 | 10.9 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,013 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,646 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,640 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,154 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,670 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,498 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,465 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,664 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,497 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,642 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,764 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,275 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,028 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,590 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,937 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,971 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,608 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,967 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,807 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,256 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,603 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,908 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,195 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,251 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,644 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,467 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,768 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,123 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,245 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,206 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,428 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Baltazar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baltazar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baltazar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baltazar, and how old are they?
2,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 2,743 Americans ever recorded as Baltazar. The median Baltazar alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 6,038 people named Baltazar (19 women and girls, 6,019 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 199 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 293 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 572 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 743 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 426 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Baltazar born?
The states with the most babies named Baltazar are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,703 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,620 | 3.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,871 | 0.0× |
Where Baltazar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baltazar is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Baltazar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baltazar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baltazar and names like it
- Compare Baltazar and GonzaloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baltazar since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Baltazar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Baltazar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Baltazar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.