# Zebulon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zebulon/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,149 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,149 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 | 25 | 4,107 |
| 2012 | 19 | 5,034 |
| 2013 | 30 | 3,581 |
| 2014 | 28 | 3,786 |
| 2015 | 36 | 3,227 |
| 2016 | 24 | 4,325 |
| 2017 | 29 | 3,779 |
| 2018 | 22 | 4,607 |
| 2019 | 27 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 26 | 4,019 |
| 2021 | 29 | 3,813 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5,212 |
| 2023 | 19 | 5,251 |
| 2024 | 24 | 4,430 |
| 2025 | 20 | 5,042 |

## People named Zebulon

- Zebulon Pike, American military officer, explorer, and writer (1779-1813)
- Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War (1830-1894)
- Zablon Simintov, Afghan businessman

## 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.