Zebulon

Where Zebulon comes from

The dictionaries list Zebulon as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1779
    Zebulon Pike born
    American military officer, explorer, and writer
  2. 1830
    Zebulon Baird Vance born
    Confederate military officer in the American Civil War
  3. 1891
    First appearance
    #841 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1979
    Peak, #775
    125 babies named Zebulon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,375.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Zebulon Pike · American military officer, explorer, and writer, 1779–1813
  • Zebulon Baird Vance · Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, 1830–1894
  • Zebulon Weaver · American politician, 1872–1948
  • Zebulon R. Shipherd · American politician, 1768–1841
  • Zebulon Aiton Lash · Canadian lawyer, civil servant and businessman, 1846–1920

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.