Meaning not yet researched.
Shalom: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 95 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,603 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,603 in 2021; #1,725 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Shalom in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,725 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,603.
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Shalom: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 95 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,603 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 107 (2021).
In 2025, 95 US boys were named Shalom, making it the 1,725th most common boys’ name of the year, up 7 places from #1,732 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 96 boys named Shalom in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,603, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 107. For comparison, it was #1,715 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Shalom, making it the 3,163rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 525 places from #3,688 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 42 girls named Shalom in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,137, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 52. For comparison, it was #3,249 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shalom in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 6 babies. In all, 3,689 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,176 babies named Shalom.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 897 US boys were named Shalom; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,980 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shalom ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #448 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Shalim, Shalome and Shalem are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shalim (45), Shalome (18), Shalem (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shalom in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #448 | #454 |
| New York | 21 | #711 | #530 |
| Maryland | 5 | #905 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,046 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,099 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,423 | #2,881 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,163 | 95 | #1,725 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,688 | 96 | #1,732 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,422 | 99 | #1,708 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,821 | 92 | #1,791 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,076 | 107 | #1,603 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,067 | 91 | #1,714 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,640 | 89 | #1,760 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,663 | 71 | #2,043 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,137 | 80 | #1,855 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,698 | 77 | #1,917 |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,249 | 91 | #1,715 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,536 | 74 | #1,958 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,260 | 61 | #2,177 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,639 | 66 | #2,089 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,903 | 66 | #2,050 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,097 | 69 | #2,001 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,090 | 67 | #2,070 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,632 | 51 | #2,502 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,366 | 71 | #1,992 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,877 | 50 | #2,470 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,577 | 48 | #2,424 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,050 | 62 | #1,971 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,764 | 50 | #2,203 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,368 | 52 | #2,087 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,547 | 46 | #2,241 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,171 | 32 | #2,854 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,152 | 37 | #2,452 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,004 | 30 | #2,771 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,118 | 24 | #3,140 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,495 | 30 | #2,584 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,552 | 25 | #2,911 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,124 | 24 | #3,017 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,632 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,621 | 32 | #2,351 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,522 | 28 | #2,534 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,161 | 21 | #3,045 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,105 | 21 | #2,980 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,843 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,927 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,035 | 12 | #3,846 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,194 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,421 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,010 | 13 | #3,388 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,901 | 18 | #2,688 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,194 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,675 | 12 | #3,581 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,563 | 16 | #2,879 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,883 | 10 | #3,810 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,818 | 15 | #2,888 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,554 | 18 | #2,493 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,356 | 12 | #3,207 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,957 | 11 | #3,290 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,801 | 8 | #3,998 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,032 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,451 | 8 | #3,908 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,808 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,866 | 8 | #3,543 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,644 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,498 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,446 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,523 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,826 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,975 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,613 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,421 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,268 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,181 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,685 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).