How Many People Are Named Zalman?
people named Zalman are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 516,291 people in the US has this name
Based on 687 babies named Zalman in Social Security records from 1949 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
27 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Yiddish form of SOLOMON.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Zalman in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Zalman alive today is about 22 years old, and 71% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 33 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Zalman first appears in the records in 1949 and was given most often in 2021, to 27 babies. In 2025, 21 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1949 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Zalman has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #3,517, in 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,854.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,854 |
| Best rank | #3,517 (1988) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #5,579 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Zalman alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Zalman were born in New York than in any other state: about 341 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Zalman was given 13.3 times as often in New York and 5.1 times in New Jersey.
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