# Balthazar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/balthazar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “may bel protect the king” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbælθəˌzɔɹ/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Baltasar, Baltassar, Balthasar, Belshazzar, Beltshatsar |
| US babies named this | 217 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 217 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 85, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Balthasar, from Latin Baltassar, from Ancient Greek Βαλτάσαρ (Baltásar), from Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר (bēlšaṣṣar), attested in the Tanakh and the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1), from Akkadian 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒈗𒋀 (Bēl-šarra-uṣṣur, literally “May Bel protect the king”). Doublet of Belshazzar.

## What it means

Balthazar is grouped under king.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 6,292 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,223 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,283 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,764 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,369 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,661 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,832 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6,749 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,233 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,578 |
| 2021 | 12 | 6,754 |
| 2022 | 13 | 6,526 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,343 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7,836 |
| 2025 | 7 | 9,824 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2009 | 7 | 2,544 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,150 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Բաղդասար
- Bulgarian: Валтасар, Балтазар
- Dutch: Balthazar
- Italian: Baldassarre
- Polish: Baltazar
- Spanish: Baltasar

## People named Balthazar

- Balthazar Getty, American actor and musician
- Balthazar Gerbier, Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat (1592–1663)
- Balthazar Georges Sage, French chemist and mineralogist (1740-1824)
- Baltazar, Brazilian association football player
- Philipp Franz von Siebold, German biologist and traveller (1796-1866)
- Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida
- Marcel Amont, French singer and actor (1929–2023)
- Batata, association football player
- Baltazar Adam Krčelić, Croatian historian, theologian and jurist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.