Zuleyma
#5,719 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zuleyma has been given to 951 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #5,719 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Zuleyma, 2025
1 in 151,000
Zuleyma over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zuleyma?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 151,000
- 22 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 73,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,719
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 104,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zuleyma sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zuleyma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zuleymas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zuleyma was born before 2007 — so the typical Zuleyma is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 951
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (293).
Is Zuleyma 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
- +443
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +600
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +997
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.16×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.9%
- Peak was 1990 (49)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zuleyma
Zuleyma is not the most common spelling — Zulema is, with 33.2% against Zuleyma's 7.8%.
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 Zuleyma is used
Across 1910–2025, Zuleyma was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 116,054 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 50,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Zuleyma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zuleyma by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zuleyma
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zuleyma
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.