Shalon
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · Last seen for boys in 2010 at #12,231
Given to girls 90.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 168 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,186since 1961
Shalon 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 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
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| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | — | |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | — | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,959 | 30 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #1,530 | 76 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #1,781 | 57 | — | |
| 1977 | #868 | 168 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #1,225 | 92 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,064 | 40 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,779 | 25 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,318 | 17 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,057 | 18 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shalon! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shalon
- Biggest jump: 357 spots in 1977 (#1,225 → #868)
- Biggest drop: 913 spots in 1978 (#868 → #1,781)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1977 at #868 (168 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1977
- Highest: 1 in 9,126 girls born in 1977 were named Shalon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 47.5% of all girls named Shalon (563) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2010, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 91 | #3,057 (1968) | #4,351 |
| 1970s | 563 | #868 (1977) | #2,136 |
| 1980s | 292 | #2,096 (1980) | #3,297 |
| 1990s | 142 | #4,230 (1990) | #6,812 |
| 2000s | 88 | #8,534 (2000) | #11,304 |
| 2010s | 5 | #16,764 (2011) | #16,764 |
| 2020s | 5 | #14,942 (2025) | #14,942 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shalon in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 9,126 of them was named Shalon, which outranked 92.3% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 136,935 of them was named Shalon, which outranked 53.3% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,037Zacharias13
- #3,037Zaire13
- #3,037Zoran13
- #3,203Shalon12
- #3,203Adelbert12
- #3,203Adron12
- #3,203Akira12
- #3,386Acie11
- #3,386Addam11
- #3,386Aj11
Tied with 182 names at #3,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.