Meaning not yet researched.
Shulem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,772 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,772 in 2023; #1,957 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shulem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,957 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,772.
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Shulem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,772 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 92 (2023).
In 2025, 79 US boys were named Shulem, making it the 1,957th most common boys’ name of the year, up 37 places from #1,994 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 78 boys named Shulem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,772, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #2,558 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shulem in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 13 babies. In all, 1,584 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 534 babies named Shulem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 667 US boys were named Shulem; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,621 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shulem ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #265 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Sholom, Sholem and Shulim are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sholom (1,497), Sholem (44), Shulim (12).
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 Shulem 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 73 | #265 | #380 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 79 | #1,957 |
| 2024 | — | — | 78 | #1,994 |
| 2023 | — | — | 92 | #1,772 |
| 2022 | — | — | 71 | #2,112 |
| 2021 | — | — | 65 | #2,191 |
| 2020 | — | — | 63 | #2,206 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,257 |
| 2018 | — | — | 56 | #2,380 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,631 |
| 2016 | — | — | 53 | #2,432 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,558 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,250 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,488 |
| 2012 | — | — | 53 | #2,409 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,401 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,505 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,281 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,710 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,412 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,346 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,949 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,873 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,709 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,332 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,135 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,409 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,274 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,285 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,435 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,025 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,078 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,815 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,657 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,578 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,872 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,291 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,833 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,131 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,199 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,611 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,294 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,898 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,403 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,119 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,741 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,362 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,397 |
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).