Shalom — #1721 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shalom

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,362 babies named Shalom between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shalom currently holds the #1721 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 106 babies received it in a single year. Shalom is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,178 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shalom performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 744 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Shalom shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 815 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Shalom in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shalom 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 2,362 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.