Shalom
#3,130 for girls in 2025, 51 births · #1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
Given to boys 66.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 107 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,460since 1947
Shalom over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,130 | 51 | #1,708 | 95 |
| 2024 | #3,639 | 42 | #1,724 | 96 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 | #1,701 | 99 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | #1,782 | 92 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | #1,597 | 107 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | #1,707 | 91 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #1,755 | 89 |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | #1,903 | 77 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 | #1,703 | 91 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 | #2,165 | 61 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 | #2,066 | 66 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | #2,035 | 66 |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 | #1,986 | 69 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #2,050 | 67 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | #2,467 | 51 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #2,449 | 50 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #2,399 | 48 |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | #2,180 | 50 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | #2,217 | 46 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,838 | 18 | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | — | #2,138 | 24 | |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shalom! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shalom
- 16 spots since 2024 (#1,724 → #1,708)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#1,707 → #1,708)
- 5 spots since 2015 (#1,703 → #1,708)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2021 at #1,597 (107 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,350 boys born in 2021 were named Shalom (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,980 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.2% of all boys named Shalom (744) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1978, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #3,370 (1947) | #3,370 |
| 1950s | 15 | #3,714 (1951) | #3,819 |
| 1960s | 53 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,540 |
| 1970s | 98 | #2,417 (1976) | #3,144 |
| 1980s | 166 | #2,138 (1981) | #2,989 |
| 1990s | 269 | #2,303 (1992) | #2,773 |
| 2000s | 529 | #1,953 (2004) | #2,256 |
| 2010s | 744 | #1,703 (2015) | #1,943 |
| 2020s | 580 | #1,597 (2021) | #1,703 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shalom in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 38,576 of them was named Shalom, which outranked 79.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,575Snow43
- #3,575Tasnim43
- #3,575Triniti43
- #3,639Shalom42
- #3,639Adalaide42
- #3,639Afton42
- #3,639Aisley42
- #3,695Aahana41
- #3,695Adaiah41
- #3,695Aili41
Tied with 55 names at #3,639; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 17,947 of them was named Shalom, which outranked 87.9% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,709Usman97
- #1,709Zorawar97
- #1,709Zuriel97
- #1,724Shalom96
- #1,724Cristofer96
- #1,724Geovanni96
- #1,724Giorgio96
- #1,735Ahaan95
- #1,735Aziz95
- #1,735Camron95
Tied with 10 names at #1,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.