Balthazar
2025 SSA
About Balthazar
This evocative name of one of the Three Wise Men of the Orient, also spelled Balthasar, may finally be ready for prime time. Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar were the Magi who brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus, though their names were not mentioned in the Bible.
Balthazar, in its various spellings, has been attached to a number of distinguished artists, writers and philosophers of the past; the most prominent contemporary bearer is Balthazar Getty, actor and great-grandson of J. Paul Getty. The iconoclastic modern painter Balthus was born Balthasar.
Balthazar is well represented in literature. The name appears in no fewer than four Shakespeare plays, is the title of a Lawrence Durrell novel, is the main character of a Balzac novel, and has been seen in everything from a James Bond film to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Smurfs to Xbox and online games, and there is a J. P. Donleavy novel titled The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.
Pronounced bal-THAZ-ar.
As of October 2026, Balthazar ranked #9824 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #5764 in 2014, Nameberry popularity #848.
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- Balthazar Baro
French poet, playwright and novelist
- Balthazar Alexis Henri Schauenburg
French Revolutionary general
- (Paul) Balthazar Getty
American actor
- Balthazar P. Melick
American founder of Chemical Bank
- Balthazar Johannes "B.J." Vorster
4th President of South Africa
- Balthazar Venn Reznor (b. 2011)
son of singer Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
- Balthazar Saint Tillman (b. 2011)
son of NFL player Travares Tillman
- Balthazar Wolf Burwell (b. 2015)
son of TV journalist Victoria Recano and Tom Burwell
- Balthazar Clémenti
son of French actor Pierre Clémenti
- Balthazar Rassam (b. 2018)
son of Charlotte Casiraghi and Dimitri Rassam.
Balthazar in pop culture
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one of the Three Wise Men
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characters in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," "Romeo & Juliet" "Much Ado About Nothing," and "The Comedy of Errors"
- Balthazar Blake
character in movie "Sorcerer's Apprentice"
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angel on TV's "Supernatural"
- "Balthazar
" novel in The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- "Balthazar
Impresario," a song by Frank Turner
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Magi computer in Japanese amine "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
- Balthazar Bratt
villain in movie "Despicable Me 3"
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main character in "Sofia The First"
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the name of Cole Turner's demonic form in "Charmed"
- Balthazar M. Edison
male human who became the Villain "Krall" in the 2016