Zuleyma
Zuleyma was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,719 among girls’ names; 951 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 Zuleyma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zuleyma?
#5,719 among girls’ names, 2025
Zuleyma rose from #6,716 in 2015 to #5,719 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 13.7 per million.
49 babies in 1990, the peak
Zuleyma peaked in 1990, when 49 girls were given it, #2,486 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,719 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,162 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,745 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,024 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,169 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,319 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,981 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,309 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,187 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,982 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,716 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,307 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,828 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,890 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,724 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,733 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,803 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,357 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,480 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,380 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,322 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,070 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,041 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,901 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,441 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,785 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,417 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,792 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,412 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,577 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,351 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,886 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,770 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,211 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,436 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,486 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,839 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,379 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,818 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,176 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zuleyma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zuleyma 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 Zuleyma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zuleyma, and how old are they?
An estimated 939 Americans named Zuleyma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,352 people named Zuleyma (1,351 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 817 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 Zuleyma born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #3,093 | 2.4× |
Where Zuleyma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zuleyma is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 2.4 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 Zuleyma 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, Zuleyma is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 121 babies (18%), 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 Zuleyma
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 Zuleyma and names like it
- Compare Zuleyma and ZulemaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZuleyma peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zuleyma since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Zuleyma.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zuleyma alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.