Zuleima
Zuleima is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Zuleima
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Zuleima is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Zuleima
Zuleima first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1984, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1994: 61 births, good for #2,188 nationwide. About 47% of every Zuleima on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Zuleima last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 709 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Zuleima
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About the name Zuleima
Zuleima is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1984 and has accumulated 709 births in the dataset. Zuleima's peak popularity came in 1994 when it ranked #2,188. Use the chart and map above to compare Zuleima's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.