Zuleima
Zuleima was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,130 among girls’ names; 725 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zuleima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zuleima?
#7,130 among girls’ names, 2025
Zuleima rose from #16,403 in 2015 to #7,130 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 10.0 per million.
61 babies in 1994, the peak
Zuleima peaked in 1994, when 61 girls were given it, #2,203 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,130 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,116 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,447 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,232 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,237 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #15,075 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,788 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,781 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,433 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,851 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,403 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,498 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,573 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,799 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,187 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,876 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,449 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,103 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,375 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,950 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,238 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,256 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,086 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,385 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,167 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,784 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,231 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,067 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,813 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,274 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,545 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,203 | 34.2 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,500 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,771 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,151 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,894 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,838 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,257 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,905 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,138 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zuleima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zuleima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zuleima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zuleima, and how old are they?
An estimated 714 Americans named Zuleima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,118 people named Zuleima (1,114 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 667 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
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 Zuleima born?
The states with the most babies named Zuleima are California, Texas and Arizona, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 229 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zuleima is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zuleima is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 2.3 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 girls’ 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 Zuleima 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 7,466 babies since 1880, Zuleima is the fourth most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 121 babies (13%), the third 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 Zuleima
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 Zuleima and names like it
- Compare Zuleima and ZulemaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZuleima peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zuleima since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Zuleima.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zuleima alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.