Shaolin — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaolin

The Social Security Administration has registered 62 babies named Shaolin between 1995 and 2006, spanning 12 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaolin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Shaolin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaolin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 31 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Shaolin shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaolin 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 62 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.