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Zebulon

#5,041 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Zebulun

Zebulon has been given to 2,149 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #5,041 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Zebulon, 2025

1 in 166,000

Zebulon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zebulon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Zebulun

Hebrew

What Zebulon means

Zebulon is a variant of Zebulun.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zebulon → Zebulun. The family’s meaning is “exalted house”, recorded in the naming reference for Zebulun.

Origin, language, and formation

Zebulon is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zebulun.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,149 boys were recorded with the name Zebulon between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 1979; its best national rank was #776 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,016 in 2020 to #5,041 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,226 in 2015 to #5,041 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 Zebulon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,041
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zebulon 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zebulon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zebulons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zebulon was born before 1990 — so the typical Zebulon is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,078
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (610).

Is Zebulon 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
−614
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,025
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,815
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.0%
Peak was 1979 (125)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#776
1979

Spellings of Zebulon

Zebulon is the most-used spelling, taking 70.6% of the 3,043 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 Zebulon is used

Across 1910–2025, Zebulon was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 308,032 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2Vermont1 in 50,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Zebulon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zebulon around the world

Where Zebulon 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.

  • South Australia
    1983–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Zebulon

People whose public names include Zebulon, 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.

Zebulon in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zebulon. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZabulonZabulón

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zebulon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,041
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,025
Best rank ever
#776
1979
Peak year
1979
125 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,149
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Zebulon

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

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Names with a curve like Zebulon

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

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Sibling names for Zebulon

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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