Zulma
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SOOL-mah
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Zulma is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
Is Zulma a girl's or a boy's name?
Zulma is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zulma in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,883rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Zulma, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1974, with 52 girls. It first appears in the records in 1947.
2025 had more girls named Zulma than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Zulma in the US since 1880 were born between 1969 and 1997, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zulma in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,760 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,684 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,211 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,494 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,004 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,978 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,197 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,489 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,623 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,826 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,531 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,252 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,139 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,091 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,375 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,887 |
| 1988 | 34 | #2,982 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,421 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,754 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,851 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,165 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,430 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,417 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,624 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,069 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,931 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,859 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,124 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,601 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,456 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,733 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,349 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,093 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,772 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,828 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,396 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,164 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,210 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,057 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,154 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,411 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,305 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,263 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,410 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,094 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,394 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,505 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,066 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,621 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,970 |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,686 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,795 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,481 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,736 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,891 |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,343 |
Names like Zulma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaira, Summer, Safa, Zayra, Farah, Zainab, Zayda, Zahira, Faiza, Hiba, Uma, Salma
Names related to Zulma
Sources
Figures from 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, “Zulma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zulma, updated 20 October 2026.