Zulma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zulma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 21st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Possibly from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān, “Solomon”); see that entry for more. The name is popular in Latin America because of an Argentine actress of that name.
- UYUruguay1 in 732(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 834
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 986
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 732 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Possibly from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān, “Solomon”); see that entry for more. The name is popular in Latin America because of an Argentine actress of that name.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #335 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 2 | Zulma | 81 |
| BO Bolivia | #21 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Zulma | 33 |
| CO Colombia | #539 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 14 | Zulma | 89 |
| PY Paraguay | #156 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 834 | — | Zulma | 30 |
| SV El Salvador | #286 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 986 | — | Zulma | 25 |
| US United States | — | 5,657 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Zulma | 261 |
| UY Uruguay | #100 | 4,630 | 1 in 732 | 4.6K | Zulma | 27 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #776 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Zulma | 39 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Zulma is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, definite nominative singular of zulmë
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zulma Carraudb. 1796FRFrench writer
- Zulma Bouffarb. 1843FRactress and singer from France
- Zulma Greyb. 1928ARArgentinian actor
- Suma Pazb. 1939ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian singer-songwriter
- Zulma E. Rúgolob. 1940ARArgentinian botanist and curator (1940— )
- Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparinib. 1944ARArgentinian paleontologist
- Zulma Faiadb. 1944ARArgentine actress
- Zulma Janeth Dueñas Gómezb. 1950COColombian biologist, chemist
- Zulma Yugarb. 1952BOBolivian singer and politician
- Zulma Lobatob. 1958ARArgentinian vedette
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.6K | #3,614 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.6K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1988 | 132 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1988 | 132 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1991 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1991 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1989 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1989 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1987 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1987 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1974 | 120 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zulma mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān, “Solomon”); see that entry for more. The name is popular in Latin America because of an Argentine actress of that name. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Zulma a male or female name?
- Zulma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zulma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Zulma in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulma.
- Where is Zulma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zulma is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 732 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zulma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,657 people named Zulma in 2020, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Zulma compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Zulma is the 335th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zulmaThe 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, “Zulma” — the 335th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.