Shulamit

#11,783 in 2025Girls' name

Peace, through Salome

Shulamit has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #11,783 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Shulamit, 2025

1 in 414,000

Shulamit over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shulamit: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Salome

Hebrew

What Shulamit means

Shulamit belongs to the name family reached through Shulamit → Salome. Its meaning is “peace”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shulamit is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shulamit comes through Hebrew שולמית.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Salome and Shulamith.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Shulamit between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1983; its best national rank was #5,922 in 1971.

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 Shulamit?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,783; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Shulamit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shulamit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shulamits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shulamit was born before 1990 — so the typical Shulamit is around 35 today.

Median birth year: 1990; About 35 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 20.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 95; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Shulamit 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: 72.7%; Peak was 1983 (11)
Years since peak: 42; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,922; 1971

Shulamit around the world

Where Shulamit 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
2006–2006
#4,157
in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Shulamit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,783
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,922; 1971
Peak year: 1983; 11 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 95
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Shulamit

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

Shukrona Shulamis Shuronda Shuntell Shuntay Shuntel Shuntae Shuntia Shuntavia Shuwanda Shulonda Shulanda Shunika Shundrea Shunna Shunte Shuree Shunita Shundra Shureka Shunteria Shundria Shukura Shulamith

Sibling names for Shulamit

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

For a sister

Linsey Thomas Charissa David Daniel Matthew Tosha Chrystal

For a brother

Jerod Elizabeth Derrell Jerrod Whitney Garrick Torrey Coty

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