Balthazar
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Balthazar is a boys' name of Persian origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies) and 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Balthazar mean?
Persian
A male given name from Old Persian.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Balthazar a girl's or a boy's name?
Balthazar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK and 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Balthazar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Balthazar, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,025th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 10 boys.
2025 had more boys named Balthazar than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Balthazar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Balthazar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,025 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,184 |
| 2018 | 7 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,306 |
| 2016 | 8 | #2,690 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,260 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,125 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 7 | #2,679 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #3,021 |
How popular is Balthazar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Balthazar, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Balthazar than any year since 2010.
Half of all the boys named Balthazar in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Balthazar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,236 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,250 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
Names like Balthazar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Musa, Umar, Abdullah, Ibrahim, Zorawar, Zayaan, Zayd, Mustafa, Zayan, Huzaifa, Hamza
Names related to Balthazar
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman, Armaan
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Balthazar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/balthazar, updated 20 October 2026.