Meaning not yet researched.
Baltazar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,520 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,520 in 1948; #2,802 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Baltazar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,802 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #1,520.
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Baltazar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,520 in 1948 · most boys in one year: 59 (2001).
In 2025, 45 US boys were named Baltazar, making it the 2,802nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 115 places from #2,917 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 43 boys named Baltazar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,520, reached in 1948. The most boys given the name in a single year was 59, in 2001. For comparison, it was #4,189 in 2015 and #1,884 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baltazar in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 2,743 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 497 babies named Baltazar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 340 US boys were named Baltazar; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baltazar ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,703 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Balthazar and Baltasar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Balthazar (217), Baltasar (56).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Baltazar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,703 | #2,599 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,871 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,620 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 45 | #2,802 |
| 2024 | — | — | 43 | #2,917 |
| 2023 | — | — | 34 | #3,427 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,011 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,825 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,554 |
| 2019 | — | — | 31 | #3,578 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,541 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,389 |
| 2016 | — | — | 33 | #3,368 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,189 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,095 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,588 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,239 |
| 2011 | — | — | 33 | #3,312 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,963 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,952 |
| 2008 | — | — | 58 | #2,270 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,612 |
| 2006 | — | — | 52 | #2,377 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,755 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,381 |
| 2003 | — | — | 58 | #1,988 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,255 |
| 2001 | — | — | 59 | #1,873 |
| 2000 | — | — | 51 | #1,993 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,824 |
| 1998 | — | — | 56 | #1,792 |
| 1997 | — | — | 43 | #2,064 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,872 |
| 1995 | — | — | 41 | #2,029 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,754 |
| 1993 | — | — | 43 | #1,911 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,884 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,799 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,635 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,796 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,671 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,832 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,925 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,174 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,843 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,143 |
| 1982 | — | — | 30 | #1,856 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,207 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,813 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #1,997 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,483 |
| 1977 | — | — | 22 | #2,136 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,006 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,952 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,134 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,739 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,933 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #1,990 |
| 1970 | — | — | 22 | #1,893 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,425 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,207 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,037 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,820 |
| 1965 | — | — | 14 | #2,186 |
| 1964 | — | — | 15 | #2,124 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,661 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,898 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,422 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,130 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #1,980 |
| 1958 | — | — | 18 | #1,899 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,958 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,171 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,222 |
| 1954 | — | — | 13 | #2,216 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,196 |
| 1952 | — | — | 19 | #1,751 |
| 1951 | — | — | 14 | #2,060 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,884 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,708 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,520 |
| 1947 | — | — | 20 | #1,700 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,014 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,647 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,641 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,155 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,671 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,498 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,465 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,664 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,497 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,642 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,764 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,275 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,029 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,590 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,937 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #1,971 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,609 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #1,967 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,809 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,258 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,605 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,197 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,252 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,645 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,468 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,769 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,124 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,246 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,207 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,429 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).