Meaning not yet researched.
Zulema: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,478 in 1889.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,478 in 1889; #2,718 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zulema in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,718 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1889, at #1,478.
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Zulema: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,478 in 1889 · most girls in one year: 106 (1996).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Zulema, making it the 2,718th most common girls’ name of the year, up 211 places from #2,929 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 57 girls named Zulema in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,478, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 106, in 1996. For comparison, it was #3,914 in 2015 and #2,435 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zulema in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 4,062 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 804 babies named Zulema.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 631 US girls were named Zulema; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zulema ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,148 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Sulema, Zuleyma and Zuleima are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sulema (2,008), Zuleyma (951), Zuleima (725), Suleyma (375), Suleima (286).
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 Zulema in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,148 | #1,731 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,635 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #2,036 | #2,365 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2019 | 55 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,082 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,914 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #4,002 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,914 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,923 | — | — |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1938 | 17 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,592 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,478 | — | — |
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).