Shlok

#2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births

Peak · boys
2014 · 73 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,068
since 2001

Shlok over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Shlok has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #1,959, 2014boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,76546
2024#2,59551
2023#2,73747
2022#2,37959
2021#2,32159
2020#2,92540
2019#2,39456
2018#2,14765
2017#2,38854
2016#1,99172
2015#2,13265
2014#1,95973
2013#2,80441
2012#2,27057
2011#2,23258
2010#3,23934
2009#2,45152
2008#3,64629
2007#4,24323
2006#3,38431
2005#5,87513
2004#4,26420
2003#7,2459
2002#7,0559
2001#10,5565
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First appearance
2001

The first year at least five boys were named Shlok! It came in at #10,556, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Shlok is popular in 2001

No state had 5 or more boys named Shlok in 2001, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shlok
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 170 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #2,765)
  • 160 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #2,765)
  • 633 spots since 2015 (#2,132 → #2,765)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2001
  • Peaked 2014 at #1,959 (73 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 26,313
  • Highest: 1 in 26,313 boys born in 2014 were named Shlok (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 53.8% of all boys named Shlok (575) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s191#2,451 (2009)#5,413
2010s575#1,959 (2014)#2,356
2020s302#2,321 (2021)#2,620

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.

Shlok in 2001

boys
#10,556
5 births · 1 in 388,576 boys

Top boys' names in 2001

  1. #1Jacob32,573
  2. #2Michael29,689
  3. #3Matthew26,812
  4. #4Joshua26,024
  5. #5Christopher23,132
  6. #6Nicholas22,849
  7. #7Andrew22,422
  8. #8Joseph22,030
  9. #9Daniel21,013
  10. #10William20,110
  11. #10,556Shlok5
More about 2001

boys

1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 388,576 of them was named Shlok, which outranked 14.2% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shlok
  1. #9,243Zuhaib6
  2. #9,243Zyier6
  3. #9,243Zyshon6
  4. #10,556Shlok5
  5. #10,556Aahil5
  6. #10,556Aarick5
  7. #10,556Aaronjoshua5

Tied with 1,751 names at #10,556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,879Jaheim#6,316 → #437
  2. ↑ 1,128Imanol#2,049 → #921
  3. ↑ 730Jagger#1,391 → #661
  4. ↑ 539Maximus#850 → #311
  5. ↑ 461Daunte#1,429 → #968
Fallers
  1. ↓ 476Tyreek#914 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 466Tyrique#949 → #1,415
  3. ↓ 456Infant#765 → #1,221
  4. ↓ 423Deion#893 → #1,316
  5. ↓ 291Nicklaus#986 → #1,277

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2001 →