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 | ||
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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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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.
Where Shalom is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#453 · 1 in 3,430
- New Jersey#667 · 1 in 5,935
- California#2,049 · 1 in 42,021
Best ever in a state: #305 in New Jersey, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #453 | 32 | 1 in 3,430 |
| New Jersey | #667 | 8 | 1 in 5,935 |
| California | #2,049 | 6 | 1 in 42,021 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 70,625 of them was named Shalom, which outranked 73.7% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,816Venice27
- #4,816Vickie27
- #4,816Waverly27
- #4,949Shalom26
- #4,949Aarya26
- #4,949Abagayle26
- #4,949Adriane26
- #5,062Abria25
- #5,062Airiana25
- #5,062Airianna25
Tied with 112 names at #4,949; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 32,016 of them was named Shalom, which outranked 85.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,934Robbie63
- #1,934Roshan63
- #1,934Willard63
- #1,953Shalom62
- #1,953Aayush62
- #1,953Antoni62
- #1,953Aren62
- #1,974Akhil61
- #1,974Anirudh61
- #1,974Arvin61
Tied with 20 names at #1,953; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.