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Zebulun

#4,536 in 2025Boys' name

Exalted house

Zebulun has been given to 894 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,536 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Zebulun, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zebulun: meaning, origin, and history

Exalted house

Hebrew

What Zebulun means

Zebulun means “exalted house”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Old Testament Hebrew זְבֻלוּן (zebulun), a son of Jacob.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Zebulun (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Zebulun is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Zebulun is pronounced /ˈzɛ.bjəˌlən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 894 boys were recorded with the name Zebulun between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,866 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,692 in 2020 to #4,536 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,284 in 2015 to #4,536 in 2025.

How common is Zebulun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,536
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zebulun 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zebulun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zebuluns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zebulun was born before 1999 — so the typical Zebulun is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
894
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Zebulun 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
−747
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,156
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+748
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 1979 (30)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,866
1979

Spellings of Zebulun

Zebulun is not the most common spelling — Zebulon is, with 70.6% against Zebulun's 29.4%.

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 Zebulun is used

Across 1910–2025, Zebulun was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,555 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2Missouri1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Zebulun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zebulun around the world

Where Zebulun 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
    2006–2014
    #3,895
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zebulun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,156
Best rank ever
#1,866
1979
Peak year
1979
30 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
894
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Zebulun

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

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Sibling names for Zebulun

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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