Shalimar
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalimar has been given to 644 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 2012, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Shalimar, 2015
1 in 740,000
Shalimar 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shalimar?
Shalimar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalimar sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalimar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalimars were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalimar was born before 1988 — so the typical Shalimar is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 28.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 639
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (182).
Is Shalimar 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
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- 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 2012 (29)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shalimar
Shalimar is not the most common spelling — Halima is, with 31.2% against Shalimar's 8.6%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shalimar is used
Across 1910–2025, Shalimar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 452,114 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3New York1 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. Shalimar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shalimar around the world
Where Shalimar 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.
- France2005–2006#5,471in 2006
- South Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shalimar by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shalimar
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shalimar
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.