Meaning not yet researched.
Shalon: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #868 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #868 in 1977; #16,897 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shalon in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,897 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #868.
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Shalon: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #868 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 168 (1977).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Shalon, making it the 16,897th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #868, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 168. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shalon in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 1,316 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 9.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 599 babies named Shalon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Shalon; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shaelyn (3,494 babies since 1880), Shaylyn (2,109 babies since 1880), Shalyn (1,992 babies since 1880) and Shaylin (1,901 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Shalon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,897 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,121 | — | — |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #13,932 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,990 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,156 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,708 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,283 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,264 | 7 | #9,977 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,564 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,183 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,950 | 5 | #12,207 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,979 | 6 | #10,349 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,051 | 7 | #8,978 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,196 | 5 | #11,334 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,041 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,211 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,064 | 5 | #10,296 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,553 | 5 | #10,074 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,593 | 9 | #6,266 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,637 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,434 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,350 | 5 | #9,287 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,814 | 6 | #7,751 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,313 | 7 | #5,999 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,713 | 8 | #5,074 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,005 | 5 | #7,198 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,123 | 9 | #4,445 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,542 | 5 | #6,918 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1977 | 168 | #868 | 12 | #3,355 |
| 1976 | 92 | #1,233 | 6 | #5,493 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,796 | 6 | #5,347 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,447 | 7 | #4,428 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,520 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,394 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,433 | — | — |
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).