Shulem
#1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 92 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,584since 1959
Shulem over time
Rank among boys' names. Shulem has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,942 | 79 |
| 2024 | #1,985 | 78 |
| 2023 | #1,765 | 92 |
| 2022 | #2,094 | 71 |
| 2021 | #2,173 | 65 |
| 2020 | #2,190 | 63 |
| 2019 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #2,355 | 56 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 48 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2015 | #2,528 | 49 |
| 2014 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 2011 | #2,376 | 53 |
| 2010 | #2,467 | 50 |
| 2009 | #2,252 | 58 |
| 2008 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #2,372 | 54 |
| 2006 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #2,843 | 36 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shulem! It came in at #2,295, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Shulem is popular in 2021
No state had 5 or more boys named Shulem in 2021, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Shulem
- 43 spots since 2024 (#1,985 → #1,942)
- 248 spots since 2020 (#2,190 → #1,942)
- 586 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2023 at #1,765 (92 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,593 boys born in 2023 were named Shulem (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.7% of all boys named Shulem (534) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 13 | #2,295 (1959) | #2,295 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 21 | #3,857 (1978) | #4,592 |
| 1980s | 64 | #3,701 (1984) | #4,670 |
| 1990s | 147 | #3,166 (1990) | #4,491 |
| 2000s | 357 | #2,252 (2009) | #3,052 |
| 2010s | 534 | #2,228 (2019) | #2,403 |
| 2020s | 448 | #1,765 (2023) | #2,025 |
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.
Shulem in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 26,915 of them was named Shulem, which outranked 84.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,157Taha66
- #2,157Yuvraj66
- #2,157Zade66
- #2,173Shulem65
- #2,173Arie65
- #2,173Banner65
- #2,173Britton65
- #2,193Aariz64
- #2,193Abdirahman64
- #2,193Abe64
Tied with 19 names at #2,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.