Shalini — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shalini

The Social Security Administration has registered 784 babies named Shalini between 1970 and 2020, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shalini currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 29 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shalini performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 221 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shalini shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 98 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Shalini in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shalini 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 784 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.