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Balthazar

#9,820 in 2025Boys' name

May Bel protect the king

Balthazar has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #9,820 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Balthazar, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Balthazar: meaning, origin, and history

May Bel protect the king

Old Persian

What Balthazar means

Balthazar means “May Bel protect the king”, associated with Bēl-šarra-uṣṣur.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Balthasar, from Latin Baltassar, from Ancient Greek Βαλτάσαρ (Baltásar), from Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר (bēlšaṣṣar), attested in the Tanakh and the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1), from Akkadian 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒈗𒋀 (Bēl-šarra-uṣṣur, literally “May Bel protect the king”). Doublet of Belshazzar.

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Origin, language, and formation

Balthazar is used in English. Its origins include Old Persian.

Balthazar comes through Middle English Balthasar, Latin Baltassar, Ancient Greek Βαλτάσαρ, Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר and Akkadian 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒈗𒋀.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Balthazar is pronounced /ˈbælθəˌzɔɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 boys were recorded with the name Balthazar between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2014; its best national rank was #5,760 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,573 in 2020 to #9,820 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,364 in 2015 to #9,820 in 2025.

How common is Balthazar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,820
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Balthazar 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Balthazar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Balthazars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Balthazar was born before 2016 — so the typical Balthazar is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
217
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Choose a decade

2010s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Balthazar 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
−1,989
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,247
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,456
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2014 (15)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,760
2014

Spellings of Balthazar

Balthazar is not the most common spelling — Baltazar is, with 92.7% against Balthazar's 7.3%.

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 Balthazar is used

Across 1910–2025, Balthazar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Balthazar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Balthazar around the world

Where Balthazar 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
    1998–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #464
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Balthazar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,820
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,247
Best rank ever
#5,760
2014
Peak year
2014
15 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Balthazar

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

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Sibling names for Balthazar

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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