Zalmen

#3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births

Peak · boys
2024 · 36 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
682
since 1956

Zalmen over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zalmen has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019boysat peak
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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#3,51332
2024#3,27236
2023#5,07519
2022#5,63316
2021#6,03214
2020#4,14124
2019#4,63921
2018#4,47622
2017#5,52616
2016#4,19924
2015#4,29523
2014#7,04811
2013#4,80419
2012#5,72015
2011#4,65920
2010#5,04718
2009#5,55416
2008#4,39522
2007#6,26213
2006#3,78226
2005#5,87513
2004#5,49214
2003#5,87712
2002#4,18819
2001#6,9359
2000#5,29713
1999#4,76214
1998#8,4796
1997#4,05916
1996#3,67818
1995#3,55918
1994#5,8689
1993#8,7005
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1990#4,99310
1989#6,9416
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1984#4,9737
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1977#5,1236
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First appearance
1956

The first year at least five boys were named Zalmen! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1958, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zalmen
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 241 spots since 2024 (#3,272#3,513)
  • 628 spots since 2020 (#4,141#3,513)
  • 782 spots since 2015 (#4,295#3,513)
Rise & fade · boys
68 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1956
  • Peaked 2024 at #3,272 (36 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 47,858
  • Highest: 1 in 47,858 boys born in 2024 were named Zalmen (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 27.7% of all boys named Zalmen (189) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s12#3,290 (1959)#3,616
1960s10#4,038 (1960)#4,221
1970s42#3,724 (1976)#4,291
1980s26#4,968 (1987)#5,851
1990s105#3,559 (1995)#5,513
2000s157#3,782 (2006)#5,366
2010s189#4,199 (2016)#5,041
2020s141#3,272 (2024)#4,611

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.

Zalmen in 2019

boys
#4,639
21 births · 1 in 85,439 boys

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #4,639Zalmen21
More about 2019

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 85,439 of them was named Zalmen, which outranked 67.2% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zalmen
  1. #4,480Zaydrian22
  2. #4,480Zyheir22
  3. #4,480Zylen22
  4. #4,639Zalmen21
  5. #4,639Aaditya21
  6. #4,639Abeer21
  7. #4,639Abrahm21
  8. #4,806Aadam20
  9. #4,806Aaryav20
  10. #4,806Abran20

Tied with 166 names at #4,639; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

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

See the top 100 for 2019