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Shalom

#1,725 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Peace

Shalom has been given to 3,689 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #1,725 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 107 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.

Babies named Shalom, 2025

1 in 34,900

Shalom over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shalom over time

In 2025, Shalom went to 35% girls and 65% boys.

19472025

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.

Shalom: meaning, origin, and history

Peace

Hebrew

What Shalom means

Shalom means “peace”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shalom is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shalom comes through Hebrew שָׁלוֹם.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,460 boys were recorded with the name Shalom between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,603 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,714 in 2020 to #1,725 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,715 in 2015 to #1,725 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,229 girls were recorded with the name Shalom between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,137 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,066 in 2020 to #3,163 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,249 in 2015 to #3,163 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shalom?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,900
95 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,725
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,190 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shalom sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,190 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaloms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalom was born before 2011 — so the typical Shalom is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,454
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (744).

Is Shalom 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
+7
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−10
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.8%
Peak was 2021 (107)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,603
2021

Spellings of Shalom

Shalom is not the most common spelling — Shiloh is, with 23.5% against Shalom's 6.1%.

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 Shalom is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Shalom was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,887 boys, against 1 in 12,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

053 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,887
  2. 2New York1 in 3,571
  3. 3Maryland1 in 6,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Where Shalom is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Shalom was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 335,452 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New 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. Shalom has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shalom around the world

Where Shalom 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1986–2025
    #2,907
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shalom

People whose public names include Shalom, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shalom in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Shalom. Linked forms have their own page here.

Sholom

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Shalom by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,725
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 11
Best rank ever
#1,603
2021
Peak year
2021
107 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,460
Count in 2025
95

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,163
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 903
Best rank ever
#3,137
2017
Peak year
2017
52 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,229
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Shalom

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shalom

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shalom, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IssaAkivaYehoshuaSimchaYasinNoamIlanYakovGavrielSaifDovidMahdi

Sibling names for Shalom

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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