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Baltasar

Boys' name

May Bel protect the king

Baltasar has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Baltasar, 2005

1 in 769,000

Baltasar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baltasar: meaning, origin, and history

May Bel protect the king

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Baltasar means

Baltasar means “May Bel protect the king”, associated with Bēl-šarra-uṣur.

Origin, language, and formation

Baltasar is used in Faroese and Occitan.

Baltasar comes through Latin Balthasar, Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר and Akkadian 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒈗𒋀.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Balthazar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Baltasar is pronounced /ˈpal̥.ta.saɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Baltasar between 1916 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,205 in 1916.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Baltasar?

Baltasar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among boys only
1 in 399,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baltasar 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baltasar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baltasars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baltasar was born before 1988 — so the typical Baltasar is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
49
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Choose a decade

1980s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Baltasar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (7)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,205
1916

Spellings of Baltasar

Baltasar is not the most common spelling — Baltazar is, with 98.0% against Baltasar's 2.0%.

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 Baltasar is used

Across 1910–2025, Baltasar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,069,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Baltasar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Baltasar around the world

Where Baltasar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1962–1962
    #1,544
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Baltasar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,205
1916
Peak year
1916
7 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Baltasar

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

BalmoreBalentinBalthazarBalorBalamBalrajMunasarElessarBalianBaldemarBaldomeroBalfourBallardEleasarBaldoBaltazarBaleyBalenBaldwinBalkeAnsarBaliBalalJassar

Sibling names for Baltasar

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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