Shalamar — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shalamar

The Social Security Administration has registered 234 babies named Shalamar between 1966 and 2006, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shalamar currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Shalamar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shalamar performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shalamar shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shalamar in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shalamar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 234 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.