Zebulon

#4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births

Peak · boys
1979 · 125 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,149
since 1891

Zebulon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zebulon has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #775, 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#4,85720
2024#4,32124
2023#5,07519
2022#5,01919
2021#3,74029
2020#3,91826
2019#3,89927
2018#4,47622
2017#3,67829
2016#4,19924
2015#3,14936
2014#3,69328
2013#3,49730
2012#4,86219
2011#3,99425
2010#3,37732
2009#4,16024
2008#4,26723
2007#4,80819
2006#3,60228
2005#4,06222
2004#4,42119
2003#3,18629
2002#3,09529
2001#2,52038
2000#2,01550
1999#2,56034
1998#2,45035
1997#2,06043
1996#2,07341
1995#1,88745
1994#1,85146
1993#1,90743
1992#1,82045
1991#1,95239
1990#1,75545
1989#1,70545
1988#1,46752
1987#1,63642
1986#1,49345
1985#1,32153
1984#97683
1983#1,37546
1982#1,07272
1981#1,01480
1980#92792
1979#775125
1978#89892
1977#1,47639
1976#1,74829
1975#1,88425
1974#4,1907
1973#4,5056
1972#3,9637
1971#4,3756
1970#4,7245
1969#3,5957
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First appearance
1891

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 2008

No state had 5 or more boys named Zebulon in 2008, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zebulon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
88 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1891
  • Peaked 1979 at #775 (125 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1978–1980
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,772
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 28.4% of all boys named Zebulon (610) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#841 (1891)#841
1900s0——
1910s19#2,651 (1914)#3,270
1920s19#3,517 (1921)#3,676
1930s9#2,651 (1931)#2,651
1940s18#2,712 (1942)#3,302
1950s5#3,988 (1959)#3,988
1960s16#2,858 (1963)#3,227
1970s341#775 (1979)#2,854
1980s610#927 (1980)#1,299
1990s416#1,755 (1990)#2,032
2000s281#2,015 (2000)#3,614
2010s272#3,149 (2015)#3,882
2020s137#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 2008

boys
#4,267
23 births · 1 in 88,702 boys

Top boys' names in 2008

  1. #1Jacob22,621
  2. #2Michael20,652
  3. #3Ethan20,223
  4. #4Joshua19,231
  5. #5Daniel19,032
  6. #6Alexander18,711
  7. #7Anthony18,417
  8. #8William18,403
  9. #9Christopher17,966
  10. #10Matthew17,604
  11. #4,267Zebulon23
More about 2008

boys

2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 88,702 of them was named Zebulon, which outranked 70.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zebulon
  1. #4,145Zaelyn24
  2. #4,145Zaidyn24
  3. #4,145Zarian24
  4. #4,267Zebulon23
  5. #4,267Advait23
  6. #4,267Advay23
  7. #4,267Afton23
  8. #4,395Aadan22
  9. #4,395Aadin22
  10. #4,395Abdurahman22

Tied with 127 names at #4,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,801Urijah#3,687 → #886
  2. ↑ 1,035Jadiel#1,912 → #877
  3. ↑ 790Aaden#1,132 → #342
  4. ↑ 676Chace#1,337 → #661
  5. ↑ 500Marley#1,263 → #763
Fallers
  1. ↓ 688Kelan#977 → #1,665
  2. ↓ 286Talen#990 → #1,276
  3. ↓ 281Nery#901 → #1,182
  4. ↓ 250Kellan#883 → #1,133
  5. ↓ 250Efren#977 → #1,227

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

See the top 100 for 2008 →