Zebulun

#4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births

Peak · boys
1979 · 30 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
894
since 1973

Zebulun over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zebulun has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201982peak #1,833, 1979boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#4,39623
2024#3,69330
2023#6,22014
2022#3,87928
2021#5,56216
2020#5,45116
2019#7,17311
2018#5,54016
2017#9,6967
2016#4,62421
2015#5,05818
2014#7,04811
2013#4,98118
2012#6,62612
2011#4,82219
2010#6,03614
2009#4,58221
2008#4,26723
2007#5,90114
2006#5,30316
2005#5,87513
2004#4,79317
2003#8,6437
2002#4,32218
2001#4,47617
2000#3,64022
1999#3,59121
1998#3,70819
1997#3,26122
1996#4,39614
1995#5,50110
1994#3,03023
1993#4,02015
1992#3,92015
1991#4,23113
1990#2,95221
1989#4,01713
1988#2,59922
1987#2,46822
1986#2,77918
1985#2,94216
1984#2,95615
1983#2,27222
1982#2,97215
1981#1,89929
1980#2,21323
1979#1,83330
1978#2,06823
1977#3,20312
1976#5,5875
1975#4,7976
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Zebulun! It came in at #3,694, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Zebulun is popular in 1982

No state had 5 or more boys named Zebulun in 1982, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zebulun
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 703 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #4,396)
  • 1,055 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #4,396)
  • 662 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #4,396)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1979 at #1,833 (30 births)
  • Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 57,385
  • Highest: 1 in 57,385 boys born in 1979 were named Zebulun (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 21.8% of all boys named Zebulun (195) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s84#1,833 (1979)#3,530
1980s195#1,899 (1981)#2,712
1990s173#2,952 (1990)#3,861
2000s168#3,640 (2000)#5,180
2010s147#4,624 (2016)#6,160
2020s127#3,693 (2024)#4,867

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.

Zebulun in 1982

boys
#2,972
15 births · 1 in 120,963 boys

Top boys' names in 1982

  1. #1Michael68,216
  2. #2Christopher59,223
  3. #3Matthew46,045
  4. #4Jason40,628
  5. #5David40,453
  6. #6James38,874
  7. #7Joshua38,004
  8. #8John34,698
  9. #9Robert34,409
  10. #10Daniel32,652
  11. #2,972Zebulun15
More about 1982

boys

1,814,447 boys got a published name in 1982; 1 in 120,963 of them was named Zebulun, which outranked 59.7% of the 7,367 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zebulun
  1. #2,831Wendy16
  2. #2,831Yale16
  3. #2,831Zacharias16
  4. #2,972Zebulun15
  5. #2,972Abrahan15
  6. #2,972Alaric15
  7. #2,972Alejandra15
  8. #3,108Adell14
  9. #3,108Aleksander14
  10. #3,108Alen14

Tied with 135 names at #2,972; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1981
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,958Colt#2,418 → #460
  2. ↑ 730Eliot#1,695 → #965
  3. ↑ 532Colton#1,334 → #802
  4. ↑ 478Kiel#1,101 → #623
  5. ↑ 416Eugenio#1,411 → #995
Fallers
  1. ↓ 309Marchello#841 → #1,150
  2. ↓ 237Carmen#851 → #1,088
  3. ↓ 234Claudio#976 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 224Irvin#826 → #1,050
  5. ↓ 222Jeramiah#971 → #1,193

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1982 →