Shalom

Where Shalom comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (shalóm).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shalom
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,370 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2021
    Peak, #1,597
    107 babies named Shalom — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.