Zebulon
Zebulon reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 775, and has been recorded 2,149 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 2,000 Zebulons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Zebulon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,149
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 775th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1891
How old the living Zebulons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,149 babies given the name since 1891, about 2,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zebulons
- Zebulon Pike (1779–1813)American military officer, explorer, and writer
- Zebulon Baird Vance (1830–1894)Confederate military officer in the American Civil War
People named Zebulon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zebulon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zebulon is most concentrated in North Carolina (13.5×), Colorado (5.5×), California (1.1×), Texas (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Zebulon peaked:
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Zebulon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.