Zalman — #4440 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zalman

The Social Security Administration has registered 665 babies named Zalman between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zalman currently holds the #4440 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zalman performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Zalman shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 339 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Zalman in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zalman 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 665 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.