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Zulma

#8,356 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Zulema

Zulma has been given to 1,662 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #8,356 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Zulma, 2025

1 in 255,000

Zulma over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zulma: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Zulema

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zulma means

Zulma is a variant of Zulema.

Origin, language, and formation

Zulma is used in Spanish and Walloon.

Zulma comes through Arabic سُلَيْمَان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zulema.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zulma is pronounced /ˈθulma/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,662 girls were recorded with the name Zulma between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,759 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,080 in 2020 to #8,356 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 Zulma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,356
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zulma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zulma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zulmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zulma was born before 1981 — so the typical Zulma is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,647
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Choose a decade

1970s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (382).

Is Zulma 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,724
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 1974 (52)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,759
1974

Spellings of Zulma

Zulma is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 40.6% against Zulma's 0.14%.

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 Zulma is used

Across 1910–2025, Zulma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 57,314 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 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. Zulma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zulma around the world

Where Zulma 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.

  • France
    1900–1937
    #1,220
    in 1937

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Zulma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,356
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,724
Best rank ever
#1,759
1974
Peak year
1974
52 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,662
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Zulma

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

ZullyZulayZuleykaZulemaZulaZuleikaPalmaZuleymaZuleyZuleimaVilmaNelmaTelmaSalmaHilmaZulyIlmaBelmaHelmaZelmaWylmaSulmaValmaSelma

Sibling names for Zulma

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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