Shulamith

Girls' name

Peace, through Salome

Shulamith has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1944, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Shulamith, 1986

1 in 711,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shulamith: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Salome

Hebrew

What Shulamith means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Shulamith is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shulamith comes through Hebrew שולמית.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Salome.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 girls were recorded with the name Shulamith between 1944 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1944; its best national rank was #5,158 in 1944.

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 Shulamith?

Shulamith had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986: 1 in 711,000; 5 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 493,068 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Shulamith 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 1986 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 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shulamith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shulamiths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shulamith was born before 1945 — so the typical Shulamith is around 80 today.

Median birth year: 1945; About 80 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 25.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Shulamith 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 1944 (5)
Years since peak: 81; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,158; 1944

Where Shulamith is used

Across 1910–2025, Shulamith was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New 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. Shulamith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shulamith around the world

Where Shulamith 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 Australia
1974–1974
#683
in 1974

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shulamith by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,158; 1944
Peak year: 1944; 5 that year
First recorded: 1944
Last recorded: 1986
All-time count: 20
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Shulamith

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

Shundrika Shunteria Shundreka Shulanda Shundrea Shulonda Shuwanda Shulamit Shuntavia Shukrona Shukriyyah Shurhonda Shulamite Shundria Shumeka Mirelith Shukura Shureka Shunita Shuntell Shunette Shulamis Maridith Shurlene

Sibling names for Shulamith

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

Judie Carroll Prudence Gerry Ruthann Donnie Jerrie Jerilyn

For a brother

Lupe Connie Jerold Gail Truman Domingo Fredric Errol

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