Zalman
#4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · boys
- 1949 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 687since 1949
Zalman over time
Rank among boys' names. Zalman has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,707 | 21 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zalman! It came in at #3,298, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zalman is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#731 · 1 in 10,808
Best ever in a state: #523 in New Jersey, 2021.
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| New York | #731 | 12 | 1 in 10,808 |
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See more about Zalman
- 386 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,707)
- 1,913 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #4,707)
- 300 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #4,707)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1949 at #3,298 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1950, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 64,796 boys born in 2021 were named Zalman (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,298 in 1949, was only 1 in 295,657 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.6% of all boys named Zalman (162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,298 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,827 (1954) | #3,908 |
| 1960s | 21 | #3,652 (1961) | #3,944 |
| 1970s | 47 | #3,614 (1978) | #4,668 |
| 1980s | 76 | #3,350 (1988) | #4,908 |
| 1990s | 98 | #4,185 (1996) | #5,761 |
| 2000s | 138 | #4,640 (2007) | #5,744 |
| 2010s | 162 | #4,407 (2015) | #6,102 |
| 2020s | 129 | #3,912 (2021) | #4,782 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zalman in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 127,619 of them was named Zalman, which outranked 60.6% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,203Yang16
- #3,203Yonathan16
- #3,203Zacary16
- #3,350Zalman15
- #3,350Aden15
- #3,350Adrienne15
- #3,350Albino15
- #3,523Abdiel14
- #3,523Abimael14
- #3,523Adeel14
Tied with 172 names at #3,350; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.