Zulema
#2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · girls
- 1889 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,062since 1889
Zulema over time
Rank among girls' names. Zulema has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,691 | 64 |
| 2024 | #2,889 | 57 |
| 2023 | #3,091 | 53 |
| 2022 | #2,404 | 76 |
| 2021 | #1,897 | 104 |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 |
| 2016 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 |
| 2006 | #2,887 | 60 |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 |
| 2004 | #2,679 | 61 |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 |
| 1998 | #2,338 | 60 |
| 1997 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 1996 | #1,510 | 106 |
| 1995 | #1,588 | 95 |
| 1994 | #1,841 | 77 |
| 1993 | #1,815 | 80 |
| 1992 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 1991 | #1,894 | 74 |
| 1990 | #1,733 | 84 |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 |
| 1988 | #2,646 | 40 |
| 1987 | #2,493 | 41 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 |
| 1982 | #2,250 | 44 |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 |
| 1980 | #2,391 | 40 |
| 1979 | #1,917 | 54 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 |
| 1977 | #2,189 | 42 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 |
| 1975 | #1,713 | 55 |
| 1974 | #1,667 | 55 |
| 1973 | #1,690 | 53 |
| 1972 | #1,946 | 42 |
| 1971 | #2,542 | 29 |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1969 | #2,515 | 27 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 |
| 1967 | #2,963 | 18 |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 |
| 1963 | #2,864 | 19 |
| 1962 | #2,539 | 23 |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 |
| 1960 | #2,246 | 27 |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 |
| 1958 | #2,581 | 20 |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 |
| 1956 | #2,389 | 22 |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #2,314 | 19 |
| 1950 | #2,341 | 18 |
| 1949 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1948 | #1,953 | 24 |
| 1947 | #2,089 | 22 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 |
| 1942 | #2,046 | 18 |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 |
| 1940 | #1,900 | 18 |
| 1939 | #1,797 | 19 |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 |
| 1936 | #2,153 | 14 |
| 1935 | #2,575 | 11 |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 |
| 1933 | #1,970 | 16 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #1,502 | 25 |
| 1930 | #1,815 | 20 |
| 1929 | #1,766 | 21 |
| 1928 | #2,094 | 17 |
| 1927 | #1,885 | 21 |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 |
| 1925 | #2,191 | 17 |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,479 | 14 |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 |
| 1920 | #2,590 | 13 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 |
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| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zulema! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zulema is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,406 · 1 in 10,303
- Texas#1,990 · 1 in 15,987
Best ever in a state: #367 in Texas, 1931.
Show every state
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| California | #1,406 | 19 | 1 in 10,303 |
| Texas | #1,990 | 10 | 1 in 15,987 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Zulema
- 198 spots since 2024 (#2,889 → #2,691)
- 556 spots since 2020 (#2,135 → #2,691)
- 1,151 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #2,691)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 1889 at #1,279 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1890, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,778 girls born in 2021 were named Zulema (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,279 in 1889, was only 1 in 35,673 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.8% of all girls named Zulema (804) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,279 (1889) | #1,279 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,931 (1905) | #1,931 |
| 1910s | 43 | #2,376 (1918) | #3,397 |
| 1920s | 145 | #1,766 (1929) | #2,537 |
| 1930s | 146 | #1,502 (1931) | #2,388 |
| 1940s | 183 | #1,750 (1941) | #2,167 |
| 1950s | 194 | #2,314 (1951) | #2,489 |
| 1960s | 230 | #2,246 (1968) | #2,616 |
| 1970s | 440 | #1,667 (1974) | #2,051 |
| 1980s | 412 | #2,119 (1981) | #2,440 |
| 1990s | 804 | #1,510 (1996) | #1,867 |
| 2000s | 592 | #2,213 (2000) | #2,797 |
| 2010s | 424 | #2,962 (2019) | #3,687 |
| 2020s | 439 | #1,897 (2021) | #2,518 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zulema in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 34,529 of them was named Zulema, which outranked 82.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,145Tanner51
- #3,145Tenzin51
- #3,145Zyanna51
- #3,192Zulema50
- #3,192Alethea50
- #3,192Alexi50
- #3,192Aleya50
- #3,247Adaya49
- #3,247Adia49
- #3,247Aicha49
Tied with 54 names at #3,192; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.