Zebulan
Zebulan was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 102 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zebulan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zebulan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,252, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1979, the peak
Zebulan peaked in 1979, when 16 boys were given it, #2,894 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #12,252 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #14,010 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,563 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,523 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,690 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,628 | 3.6 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,404 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,928 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,334 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,337 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | #4,490 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,894 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,611 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zebulan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zebulan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zebulan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zebulan, and how old are they?
An estimated 97 Americans named Zebulan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 125 people named Zebulan (0 women and girls, 125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 98 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,278 babies since 1880, Zebulan is the third most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 43 babies recorded by SSA was a Zebulan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Zebulan
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 Zebulan and names like it
- Compare Zebulan and ZebulonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sZebulan peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Zebulan.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.