Shalon
Shalon was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,893 among girls’ names; 1,316 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Shalon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 37 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalon?
#16,893 among girls’ names, 2025
Shalon entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,893 in 2025.
180 babies in 1977, the peak
Shalon peaked in 1977, when 180 babies were given it (168 girls, #868 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,893 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,113 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,984 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,150 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,704 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,278 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,257 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,558 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,177 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,944 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | #9,972 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,043 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,189 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,035 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,206 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,059 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,587 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,631 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,428 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,967 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,808 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,807 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,039 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,400 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,126 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,004 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,542 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 168 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 92 | #1,233 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,796 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,383 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,446 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,728 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,562 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,149 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,585 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,432 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,316 Americans recorded as Shalon, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shalon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalon, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,316 Americans ever recorded as Shalon. The median Shalon alive today is 47 years old; half are between 37 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,501 people named Shalon (1,322 women and girls, 179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 683 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 386 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 162 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Shalon born?
The states with the most babies named Shalon are California, Texas and Michigan, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 9 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Utah | 7 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Shalon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,742 babies since 1880, Shalon is the sixth most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 39 babies (13%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shalon
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 Shalon and names like it
- Compare Shalon and ShaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShalon peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalon since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shalon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shalon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.