Zalmen
#3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 682since 1956
Zalmen over time
Rank among boys' names. Zalmen 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 | #3,513 | 32 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #4,395 | 22 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #3,782 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
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| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
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| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zalmen! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1958, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zalmen is popular in 1973
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#927 · 1 in 19,056
Best ever in a state: #585 in New York, 2006.
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| New York | #927 | 6 | 1 in 19,056 |
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See more about Zalmen
- 241 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #3,513)
- 628 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #3,513)
- 782 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #3,513)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2024 at #3,272 (36 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 47,858 boys born in 2024 were named Zalmen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.7% of all boys named Zalmen (189) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,616 |
| 1960s | 10 | #4,038 (1960) | #4,221 |
| 1970s | 42 | #3,724 (1976) | #4,291 |
| 1980s | 26 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,851 |
| 1990s | 105 | #3,559 (1995) | #5,513 |
| 2000s | 157 | #3,782 (2006) | #5,366 |
| 2010s | 189 | #4,199 (2016) | #5,041 |
| 2020s | 141 | #3,272 (2024) | #4,611 |
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.
Zalmen in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
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1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 222,654 of them was named Zalmen, which outranked 31.0% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,694Zebedee8
- #3,694Zebulun8
- #3,694Zenas8
- #4,054Zalmen7
- #4,054Aaran7
- #4,054Abron7
- #4,054Adair7
- #4,505Abdu6
- #4,505Abelino6
- #4,505Able6
Tied with 450 names at #4,054; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.