Shalom
Shalom is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 95 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,163 among girls’ names and #1,725 among boys’, #2,758 among all names counting both); 3,689 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,610 Americans named Shalom and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalom by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shalom mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shalom is “a unisex given name from Hebrew.”
Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (shalóm).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shalom?
#1,725 among boys’ names, 2025
Shalom fell from #1,715 in 2015 to #1,725 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 47.5 to 55.6 per million.
146 babies in 2023, the peak
Shalom peaked in 2023, when 146 babies were given it (99 boys, #1,708 among boys’ names). The 146 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,163 | 95 | #1,725 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,688 | 96 | #1,732 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,422 | 99 | #1,708 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,819 | 92 | #1,791 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,073 | 107 | #1,603 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,066 | 91 | #1,714 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,639 | 89 | #1,760 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,662 | 71 | #2,042 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,137 | 80 | #1,855 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,698 | 77 | #1,917 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,249 | 91 | #1,715 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,534 | 74 | #1,957 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,259 | 61 | #2,176 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,638 | 66 | #2,088 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,902 | 66 | #2,049 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,096 | 69 | #2,000 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,089 | 67 | #2,069 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,631 | 51 | #2,501 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,365 | 71 | #1,992 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,875 | 50 | #2,469 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,572 | 48 | #2,420 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,046 | 62 | #1,967 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,759 | 50 | #2,199 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,364 | 52 | #2,083 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,542 | 46 | #2,237 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,165 | 32 | #2,848 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,146 | 37 | #2,449 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,001 | 30 | #2,768 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,114 | 24 | #3,135 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,490 | 30 | #2,579 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,547 | 25 | #2,906 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,118 | 24 | #3,011 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 18 | #3,626 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,614 | 32 | #2,346 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,516 | 28 | #2,528 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,155 | 21 | #3,039 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,098 | 21 | #2,974 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 20 | #2,838 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 18 | #2,923 | |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,031 | 12 | #3,842 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 15 | #3,191 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 13 | #3,419 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,007 | 13 | #3,387 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,899 | 18 | #2,687 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 24 | #2,193 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,674 | 12 | #3,580 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,560 | 16 | #2,878 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,882 | 10 | #3,809 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,816 | 15 | #2,887 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,552 | 18 | #2,492 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,354 | 12 | #3,205 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,956 | 11 | #3,288 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,799 | 8 | #3,996 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,031 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,449 | 8 | #3,906 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,807 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,864 | 8 | #3,542 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,642 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,497 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,445 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,522 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 10 | #2,825 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,974 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,612 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,420 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,265 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,180 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,683 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shalom a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,689 Americans recorded as Shalom, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shalom: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalom, and how old are they?
3,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,689 Americans ever recorded as Shalom. The median Shalom alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,268 people named Shalom (1,133 women and girls, 2,135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,832 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 233 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 406 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,670 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shalom born?
The states with the most babies named Shalom are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 28 | #711 | 3.6× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #448 | 3.7× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,046 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,099 | 0.1× |
| California | 6 | #2,423 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 5 | #905 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Shalom is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shalom is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1947 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shalom with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shalom
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shalom and names like it
- Compare Shalom and NaveenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShalom peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalom since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Shalom: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Shalom.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shalom alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.