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Baltazar

#2,801 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Balthazar

Baltazar has been given to 2,743 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,801 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Baltazar, 2025

1 in 73,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baltazar: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Balthazar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Baltazar means

Baltazar is a variant of Balthazar.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Baltazar → Balthazar. The family’s meaning is “May Bel protect the king”, recorded in English with the source elements Bēl-šarra-uṣṣur.

Origin, language, and formation

Baltazar is used in Polish and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Balthazar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Baltazar is pronounced /balˈta.zar/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,743 boys were recorded with the name Baltazar between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,519 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,550 in 2020 to #2,801 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,187 in 2015 to #2,801 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Baltazar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,801
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baltazar 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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baltazar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Baltazars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baltazar was born before 1992 — so the typical Baltazar is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,353
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (497).

Is Baltazar 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
+116
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,749
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,386
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.3%
Peak was 2001 (59)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,519
1948

Where Baltazar is used

Across 1910–2025, Baltazar was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 33,327 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 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. Baltazar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Baltazar around the world

Where Baltazar 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.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    1971–2019
    #6,674
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Baltazar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,801
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,749
Best rank ever
#1,519
1948
Peak year
2001
59 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,743
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Baltazar

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

BalthazarBaldemarBallardBaldomeroEliazarEleazarBaldwinBalianElazarLazarCezarNazarBaltasarAlazarBalinNizarKhizarBalamElizarBalmoreBalentinBalrajBalorBalen

Names with a curve like Baltazar

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

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Sibling names for Baltazar

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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