boys:
200 births since 2001
#4386 (4th percentile)
overall:
200 births since 2001
#7539 (3rd percentile)
The name Balthazar is the #7,539 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 200 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 2.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,386 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 200 births since 2001.
Balthazar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for boys in 2001). Birth data for Balthazar is available in 20 out of the 23 years between 2001 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, Balthazar reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #894) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Balthazar ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 79.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Balthazar".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Balthazar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.8% confident that Balthazar is pronounced as BAL-thuh-zahr, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAL-thuh-zer, at 20.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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