Shalamar
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalamar has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% girls, 26% boys all-time.
Babies named Shalamar, 2006
1 in 440,000
Shalamar over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shalamar over time
In 2006, Shalamar went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shalamar?
Shalamar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 440,000
- 9 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 211,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 304,691 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalamar sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 304,691 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalamar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalamars were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalamar was born before 1986 — so the typical Shalamar is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 63.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 234
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 63.7% of all recorded uses (149).
Is Shalamar rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (26)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shalamar
Shalamar is not the most common spelling — Shalimar is, with 31.3% against Shalamar's 11.5%.
Where Shalamar is used
Across 1910–2025, Shalamar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,349,052 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shalamar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shalamar around the world
Where Shalamar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2003–2003#4,373in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shalamar by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shalamar
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shalamar
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.