Shlok
Shlok was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,788 among boys’ names; 1,068 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Shlok and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shlok by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shlok?
#2,788 among boys’ names, 2025
Shlok fell from #2,144 in 2015 to #2,788 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 33.9 to 26.9 per million.
73 babies in 2014, the peak
Shlok peaked in 2014, when 73 boys were given it, #1,975 among boys’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,788 | 26.9 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,629 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,765 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,402 | 33.8 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,345 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,968 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,415 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,162 | 35.8 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,412 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,007 | 37.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,144 | 33.9 |
| 2014 | 73 | #1,975 | 38.0 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,837 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,286 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,256 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,293 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,476 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,722 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,347 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,440 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,157 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,386 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,728 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,539 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,035 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shlok a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shlok has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shlok: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shlok, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,068 Americans ever recorded as Shlok. The median Shlok alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 832 people named Shlok (2 women and girls, 830 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 770 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 336 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 723 |
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 Shlok born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,495 | 1.2× |
Where Shlok is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shlok is most over-represented in California: since 2001 it was given 1.2 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 Shlok 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 Shlok
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 Shlok and names like it
- Compare Shlok and DarshBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShlok peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shlok since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Shlok.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shlok alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.