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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| 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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First appearance
1947
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.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 16 spots since 2024 (#1,724 → #1,708)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#1,707 → #1,708)
- 5 spots since 2015 (#1,703 → #1,708)
Rise & fade · boys
74 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2021 at #1,597 (107 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,350
- 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 30.2% of all boys named Shalom (744) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1979
- 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.
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