Zulma
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 52 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,662since 1947
Zulma over time
Rank among girls' names. Zulma 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 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 |
| 1991 | #3,097 | 36 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 |
| 1989 | #3,893 | 25 |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 |
| 1980 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 |
| 1977 | #2,124 | 44 |
| 1976 | #2,602 | 30 |
| 1975 | #2,456 | 32 |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #2,093 | 37 |
| 1971 | #1,772 | 50 |
| 1970 | #1,828 | 48 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #2,164 | 31 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 |
| 1966 | #2,058 | 32 |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 |
| 1963 | #2,306 | 27 |
| 1962 | #2,264 | 28 |
| 1961 | #2,411 | 25 |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 21 |
| 1957 | #2,067 | 28 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 |
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| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zulma! It came in at #4,345, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zulma
- 2,365 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1974 at #1,733 (52 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,222 girls born in 1974 were named Zulma (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.0% of all girls named Zulma (382) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 15 | #3,892 (1949) | #4,119 |
| 1950s | 141 | #2,067 (1957) | #3,140 |
| 1960s | 260 | #2,058 (1966) | #2,447 |
| 1970s | 382 | #1,733 (1974) | #2,275 |
| 1980s | 233 | #2,987 (1988) | #3,762 |
| 1990s | 289 | #3,097 (1991) | #3,815 |
| 2000s | 234 | #3,983 (2000) | #5,924 |
| 2010s | 79 | #8,271 (2010) | #11,625 |
| 2020s | 29 | #7,885 (2025) | #10,111 |
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.
Zulma in 1962
Top girls' names in 1962
More about 1962
girls
1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 70,236 of them was named Zulma, which outranked 70.1% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,210Wayne29
- #2,210Yevette29
- #2,210Yulanda29
- #2,264Zulma28
- #2,264Alan28
- #2,264Alina28
- #2,264Ardith28
- #2,312Adella27
- #2,312Anabel27
- #2,312Bernardine27
Tied with 47 names at #2,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.