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Baldemar

#7,735 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Baldemar has been given to 2,256 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #7,735 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Baldemar, 2025

1 in 332,000

Baldemar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baldemar: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Baldemar means

Baldemar is a given name.

The naming story behind Baldemar

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Baldemar in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 303.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ger. Teu. princely fame”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Baldemar, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,256 boys were recorded with the name Baldemar between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,176 in 1946.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,090 in 2020 to #7,735 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,546 in 2015 to #7,735 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Baldemar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,735
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baldemar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baldemar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baldemars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baldemar was born before 1973 — so the typical Baldemar is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
12.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,732
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 12.3% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Baldemar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−645
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−189
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.8%
Peak was 1989 (42)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,176
1946

Spellings of Baldemar

Baldemar is the most-used spelling, taking 47.7% of the 4,730 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Baldemar is used

Across 1910–2025, Baldemar was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 23,186 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Baldemar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Baldemar

People whose public names include Baldemar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Baldemar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,735
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 645
Best rank ever
#1,176
1946
Peak year
1989
42 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,256
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Baldemar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Baldemar

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Baldemar, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Baldemar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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