boys:
2.7k births since 1915
#2446 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1915
#5214 (33rd percentile)
The name Baltazar is the #5,214 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,654 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 32.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,446 (46.6% percentile) for all time with 2,654 births since 1915.
Baltazar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for boys in 1915). Birth data for Baltazar is available in 108 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Baltazar reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #771) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Baltazar ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 65.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baltazar".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Baltazar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.6% confident that Baltazar is pronounced as BAHL-tuh-zahr, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bahl-tuh-ZAHR, at 15.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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