Zebulon
About Zebulon
An Old Testament name with a Puritan feel and post-Zachary possibilities--one of several routes to the cool nickname Zeb.
Pike's Peak was named for Zebulon Pike, the best known bearer of the name.
In the Bible, Zebulon--or Zebulun-- was the son of Jacob and Leah, the ancestor of the tribe of Israel which bore his name and settled around Nazareth. The Zebulunites mustered the single largest army to fight for David's installation as king.
Zebulon is the name of a song by Rufus Wainwright, and Margaret Atwood used it for a character in her MaddAddam trilogy. It was also the name of the grandpa on The Waltons.
Pronounced ZEB-yuh-lun.
As of October 2026, Zebulon ranked #5042 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #776 in 1979.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,785 | 28 | 14.6 |
| 2015 | #3,227 | 36 | 18.8 |
| 2016 | #4,323 | 24 | 12.6 |
| 2017 | #3,778 | 29 | 15.7 |
| 2018 | #4,607 | 22 | 12.1 |
| 2019 | #4,000 | 27 | 15 |
| 2020 | #4,017 | 26 | 15.1 |
| 2021 | #3,812 | 29 | 16.6 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | #4,411 | 24 | 13.9 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Zebulon on lists
Famous Zebulons
- Zebulon Montgomery Pike
U.S. general and explorer
- Zebulon Baird Vance
U.S. general; governor and senator from North Carolina
- Zebulon Weaver
U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
- Zebulon Butler
American Revolutionary soldier and politician
- Zebulon Reed Brockway
American prison reformer
- Zebulon Vance "Zeb" Eaton
American baseball player
- Zebulon Alexander "Zeb" Terry
American baseball player
- Zebulon Jeremiah Bogue (b. 2003)
son of actor Robert Bogue
Zebulon in pop culture
- Zebulon Tyler Walton
grandpa character on TV's "The Waltons"
- Zébulon
Canadian band
- "Zebulon
" song by Rufus Wainwright
- "Zebulon
" song by Einstürzende Neubauten
- Zavulon or Zebulon
character in the "Night Watch" series by Sergei Lukyanenko
- Zebulon
town in North Carolina, USA
- Zebulon
character in "MaddAddam" and "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood