Zebulon
#4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,149since 1891
Zebulon over time
Rank among boys' names. Zebulon has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #3,918 | 26 |
| 2019 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #3,602 | 28 |
| 2005 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #2,520 | 38 |
| 2000 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #1,887 | 45 |
| 1994 | #1,851 | 46 |
| 1993 | #1,907 | 43 |
| 1992 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #1,952 | 39 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #1,467 | 52 |
| 1987 | #1,636 | 42 |
| 1986 | #1,493 | 45 |
| 1985 | #1,321 | 53 |
| 1984 | #976 | 83 |
| 1983 | #1,375 | 46 |
| 1982 | #1,072 | 72 |
| 1981 | #1,014 | 80 |
| 1980 | #927 | 92 |
| 1979 | #775 | 125 |
| 1978 | #898 | 92 |
| 1977 | #1,476 | 39 |
| 1976 | #1,748 | 29 |
| 1975 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
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| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #3,525 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
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| 1931 | #2,651 | 9 |
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| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
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| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
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| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
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| 1914 | #2,651 | 7 |
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| 1891 | #841 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zebulon! It came in at #841, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1892–1913, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Zebulon is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#524 · 1 in 7,758
- Texas#951 · 1 in 16,012
Best ever in a state: #99 in Vermont, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #524 | 5 | 1 in 7,758 |
| Texas | #951 | 9 | 1 in 16,012 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zebulon
- 536 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,857)
- 939 spots since 2020 (#3,918 → #4,857)
- 1,708 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #4,857)
- Biggest jump: 578 spots in 1978 (#1,476 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 345 spots in 1985 (#976 → #1,321)
- Debuted 1891
- Peaked 1979 at #775 (125 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1978–1980
- Highest: 1 in 13,772 boys born in 1979 were named Zebulon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.4% of all boys named Zebulon (610) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #841 (1891) | #841 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 19 | #2,651 (1914) | #3,270 |
| 1920s | 19 | #3,517 (1921) | #3,676 |
| 1930s | 9 | #2,651 (1931) | #2,651 |
| 1940s | 18 | #2,712 (1942) | #3,302 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 16 | #2,858 (1963) | #3,227 |
| 1970s | 341 | #775 (1979) | #2,854 |
| 1980s | 610 | #927 (1980) | #1,299 |
| 1990s | 416 | #1,755 (1990) | #2,032 |
| 2000s | 281 | #2,015 (2000) | #3,614 |
| 2010s | 272 | #3,149 (2015) | #3,882 |
| 2020s | 137 | #3,740 (2021) | #4,488 |
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.
Zebulon in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 36,813 of them was named Zebulon, which outranked 82.7% 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).
- #1,451Sawyer53
- #1,451Toney53
- #1,451Vincente53
- #1,467Zebulon52
- #1,467Bilal52
- #1,467Chuck52
- #1,467Douglass52
- #1,482Blaze51
- #1,482Buck51
- #1,482Burton51
Tied with 14 names at #1,467; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.