Shalon — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shalon

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,181 babies named Shalon between 1961 and 2011, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shalon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 168 babies received it in a single year. Shalon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 130 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shalon performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 563 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shalon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Shalon in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shalon 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 1,181 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.