Zebulan
Last seen for boys in 2012 at #10,770
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 102since 1978
Zebulan over time
Rank among boys' names. Zebulan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
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| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
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| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
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| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
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| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
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| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
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| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
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| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #3,400 | 11 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zebulan! It came in at #3,400, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zebulan is popular in 1979
No state had 5 or more boys named Zebulan in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zebulan
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2012
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1979 at #2,777 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 107,596 boys born in 1979 were named Zebulan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 316,158 boys born in 2012 (0.00%)
- 26.5% of all boys named Zebulan (27) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 27 | #2,777 (1979) | #3,089 |
| 1980s | 26 | #4,134 (1980) | #5,729 |
| 1990s | 22 | #5,823 (1990) | #6,838 |
| 2000s | 21 | #6,935 (2001) | #9,211 |
| 2010s | 6 | #10,770 (2012) | #10,770 |
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.
Zebulan in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 107,596 of them was named Zebulan, which outranked 60.7% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,669Welton17
- #2,669Windell17
- #2,669Yehoshua17
- #2,777Zebulan16
- #2,777Aarron16
- #2,777Abrahan16
- #2,777Akbar16
- #2,897Adel15
- #2,897Ajani15
- #2,897Alexandros15
Tied with 119 names at #2,777; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.