Shloma
Shloma was given to 20 boys in 2025, #5,015 among boys’ names; 517 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shloma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shloma?
#5,015 among boys’ names, 2025
Shloma fell from #4,058 in 2015 to #5,015 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 11.7 per million.
30 babies in 2018, the peak
Shloma peaked in 2018, when 30 boys were given it, #3,685 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,015 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,172 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,981 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,546 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,212 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,421 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,783 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,685 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,265 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,665 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,058 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,445 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,932 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,939 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,965 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,644 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,037 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,013 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,176 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,901 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,530 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,760 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,156 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,347 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,080 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,745 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,435 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,464 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,527 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,903 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,675 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,628 | 3.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,320 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,280 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,935 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,037 | 4.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,143 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shloma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shloma has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shloma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shloma, and how old are they?
An estimated 509 Americans named Shloma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 364 people named Shloma (5 women and girls, 359 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 384 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Shloma born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 409 | not ranked | 12.9× |
Where Shloma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shloma is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 12.9 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 Shloma 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,455 babies since 1880, Shloma is the fifth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 375 babies (5.3%), again the fifth most given.
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 Shloma
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 Shloma and names like it
- Compare Shloma and ShlomoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShloma peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shloma since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Shloma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shloma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.