The Zebulon name comes from a little character from a TV show called the Magic Roundabout. On English television his name was Zebadee, but on in French it was Zebulon. There is some information on the web concerning the little guy. Basically he was a wizard puppet with a spring for legs, and bounced around solving peoples problems.
Zebulun was a son of Jacob and the traditional eponymous ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel.
There are 2 U.S. cities named Zebulon, one in North Carolina named after Governor Zebulon Baird Vance and one in Georgia.
Zebulon M. Pike (1779-1813) a native of New Jersey, is best remembered today for discovering the peak in Colorado which bears his name. He led two expeditions as an army officer for the U.S. government. In 1805 he commanded a 20-man exploring party with orders to discover the headwaters of the Mississippi, to negotiate peace treaties with the Indian tribes he encountered, and to assert legal claim to the area. Pike and his team trekked 2,000 miles by boat and on foot from St. Louis up to northern Minnesota. Pike wrongly thought he had discovered the source of the mighty Mississippi when he reached Leech Lake, MN. In fact there are many references of this name, spanning from French rock groups to childrens story characters.