Shalon
#16,893 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shalon has been given to 1,316 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #16,893 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 168 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Shalon, 2025
1 in 663,000
Shalon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shalon over time
In 2025, Shalon 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 Shalon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,893
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shalon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shalon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shalons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shalon was born before 1979 — so the typical Shalon is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,186
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (563).
Is Shalon 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 3.0%
- Peak was 1977 (168)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shalon
Shalon is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 62.0% against Shalon's 0.10%.
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 Shalon is used
Across 1910–2025, Shalon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 383,672 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Shalon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shalon around the world
Where Shalon 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.
- South Australia1979–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shalon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shalon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shalon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.