Zebulon
Zebulon was given to 20 boys in 2025, #5,041 among boys’ names; 2,149 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,990 Americans named Zebulon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zebulon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zebulon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zebulon is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zebulon?
#5,041 among boys’ names, 2025
Zebulon fell from #3,226 in 2015 to #5,041 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 11.7 per million.
125 babies in 1979, the peak
Zebulon peaked in 1979, when 125 boys were given it, #776 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,041 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,427 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,246 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,208 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,809 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,016 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,998 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,603 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,775 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,324 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,226 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,783 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,579 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 19 | #5,029 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,105 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,450 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,275 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,390 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,991 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,683 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,190 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,596 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,274 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,183 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,555 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,043 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,603 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,503 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,091 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,108 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 45 | #1,908 | 23.6 |
| 1994 | 46 | #1,862 | 23.8 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,927 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,837 | 22.5 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,976 | 19.3 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,774 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,727 | 22.5 |
| 1988 | 52 | #1,476 | 27.2 |
| 1987 | 42 | #1,652 | 22.5 |
| 1986 | 45 | #1,509 | 24.4 |
| 1985 | 53 | #1,331 | 28.7 |
| 1984 | 83 | #983 | 46.0 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,397 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,081 | 39.7 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,023 | 44.7 |
| 1980 | 92 | #937 | 51.6 |
| 1979 | 125 | #776 | 72.6 |
| 1978 | 92 | #900 | 56.0 |
| 1977 | 39 | #1,489 | 23.7 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,779 | 18.5 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,946 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,630 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,095 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,434 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,903 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,430 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,933 | 3.9 |
| 1963 | 9 | #3,041 | 4.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,570 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,195 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,016 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,937 | 5.8 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,862 | 8.7 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,145 | 5.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,866 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,280 | 5.6 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,598 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,511 | 7.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,912 | 10.7 |
| 1891 | 6 | #960 | 59.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zebulon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zebulon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zebulon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zebulon, and how old are they?
1,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,149 Americans ever recorded as Zebulon. The median Zebulon alive today is 34 years old; half are between 20 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,602 people named Zebulon (8 women and girls, 1,594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,892 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 403 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 779 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 331 |
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 Zebulon born?
The states with the most babies named Zebulon are North Carolina, California and Texas, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 128 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 38 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 22 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Zebulon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zebulon is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 Zebulon 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,278 babies since 1880, Zebulon is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 43 babies (47%), the second 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 Zebulon
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 Zebulon and names like it
- Compare Zebulon and ZebulunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sZebulon peaked in 1979.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zebulon since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zebulon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Zebulon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zebulon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.