Shalen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shalen

The Social Security Administration has registered 72 babies named Shalen between 1976 and 2008, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shalen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Shalen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shalen performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shalen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shalen 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 72 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.