Zulma
Zulma was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,356 among girls’ names; 1,662 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Zulma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 29 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zulma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zulma mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Zulma is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “Solomon” (سُلَيْمَان).
Possibly from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān, “Solomon”); see that entry for more. The name is popular in Latin America because of an Argentine actress of that name.
/ˈθulma/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zulma?
#8,356 among girls’ names, 2025
Zulma entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,356 in 2025.
52 babies in 1974, the peak
Zulma peaked in 1974, when 52 girls were given it, #1,759 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,356 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,448 | 4.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,080 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #18,010 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,455 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,112 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,772 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,947 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,961 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,850 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | #10,367 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,695 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,693 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,877 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,546 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,809 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,813 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,482 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,937 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,616 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,168 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,073 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,308 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,632 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,712 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,936 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,664 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,609 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,386 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,212 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,152 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,517 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,013 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,033 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,520 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,152 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,981 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,316 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,553 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,528 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,737 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,133 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,996 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,941 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,161 | 28.7 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,662 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,515 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,759 | 35.4 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,404 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,134 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,804 | 30.1 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,858 | 27.5 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,453 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,204 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,338 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,092 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,203 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,473 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,362 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,310 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,472 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,210 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,456 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,579 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,119 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,723 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,093 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,953 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,121 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,712 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,298 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,233 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,761 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zulma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zulma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zulma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zulma, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,662 Americans ever recorded as Zulma. The median Zulma alive today is 44 years old; half are between 29 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 5,657 people named Zulma (5,646 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 227 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 509 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 401 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 343 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 77 |
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 Zulma born?
The states with the most babies named Zulma are New York, California and Texas, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 423 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| California | 346 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Zulma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zulma is most over-represented in New York: since 1947 it was given 3.4 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 Zulma 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 7,450 babies since 1880, Zulma is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 115 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Zulma
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 Zulma and names like it
- Compare Zulma and ZulemaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sZulma peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zulma since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zulma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Zulma.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Zulma alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.