Zebulun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The name is derived from Hebrew roots associated with 'dwelling' or 'honor' (zbl), and 'gift' (zbd), reflecting Leah's statement: 'God has endowed me with a good endowment..
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/zəˈbju.lən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Zebulun is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 19Kas זבולון(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 79Kas Zebulon
- USUnited States1 in 208Kas Zebulon
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zebulun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
1,602 named Zebulon, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est., as זבולון
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled זבולון in IL Israel, US United States, TN Tunisia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The name is derived from Hebrew roots associated with 'dwelling' or 'honor' (zbl), and 'gift' (zbd), reflecting Leah's statement: 'God has endowed me with a good endowment... now my husband will dwell with me.'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zebulun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,602as Zebulon | 1 in 208K | 1.6K | זבולון | 31 |
| IL Israel | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 808 | זבולון | 27 |
| SE Sweden | 129as Zebulon | 1 in 79K | 129 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 18as Zebulon | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | 3 |
| TN Tunisia | — | — | — | זבולון | 2 |
1,602 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling zebulon. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Zebulun is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Jewish tradition, Zebulun represents the role of the merchant who supports the study of Torah (specifically associated with the tribe of Issachar).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
A biblical name implying honor, dwelling, or a gift; it is historically rare but occasionally used.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Biblical name, borne by the sixth son of Leah and Jacob. The name may mean ‘exaltation’, although Leah derives it from another meaning of the Hebrew root zabal, namely ‘to dwell’: ‘now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons’ (Genesis 30:20). It appears in the New Testament (Matthew 4:13) in the form Zabulon. Variant: Zebulon.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Tenth son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zebulun mean, and where does it come from?
- The name is derived from Hebrew roots associated with 'dwelling' or 'honor' (zbl), and 'gift' (zbd), reflecting Leah's statement: 'God has endowed me with a good endowment... Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Zebulun?
- In the etymology graph, Zabulon and Zaboulon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zebulun?
- In English /zəˈbju.lən/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Zebulun a male or female name?
- Zebulun is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Zebulun have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Zebulon, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zebulun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,602 people named Zebulon in 2020, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zebulunThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zebulun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.