Zalmen
Zalmen was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,579 among boys’ names; 682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zalmen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zalmen?
#3,579 among boys’ names, 2025
Zalmen rose from #4,402 in 2015 to #3,579 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 18.7 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Zalmen peaked in 2024, when 36 boys were given it, #3,329 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,579 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,329 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,244 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,862 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,325 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,270 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,800 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,601 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,779 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,322 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,402 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,544 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,975 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,988 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,817 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,242 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,789 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,533 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,611 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,884 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,212 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,803 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,244 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,315 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,517 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,575 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #5,025 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,613 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,238 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,821 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,685 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,355 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,152 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,931 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,371 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,891 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,448 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,568 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,550 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,550 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,838 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #4,009 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,501 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,369 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,428 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,036 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,596 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,615 | 3.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,450 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zalmen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zalmen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zalmen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zalmen, and how old are they?
An estimated 663 Americans named Zalmen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 463 people named Zalmen (0 women and girls, 463 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 534 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Zalmen born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 471 | not ranked | 10.8× |
Where Zalmen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zalmen is most over-represented in New York: since 1956 it was given 10.8 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 Zalmen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,369 babies since 1880, Zalmen is the second most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 53 babies (60%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zalmen
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 Zalmen and names like it
- Compare Zalmen and ZalmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZalmen peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zalmen since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Zalmen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zalmen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.