Shloma — #4105 US boys' name
497 babies named Shloma in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 71% of names given to boys today.
36% of everyone ever named Shloma was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Shloma in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shloma
The Social Security Administration has registered 497 babies named Shloma between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shloma currently holds the #4105 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shloma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shloma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 409 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shloma in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shloma 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 497 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.
Shloma at a glance
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Current rank
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Shloma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1974
- Peak year (2018)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
Currently ranks #4105 among boys.
497 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 30 births in a single year.
Shloma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 177 births that decade — 36% of Shloma's all-time total
Shloma decade highlights
- Peak decade 177 births
- Runner-up 132 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Shloma's strongest decade
177 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Shloma by state
Where Shloma concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 409 | 82.3% |
409 of 497 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 82.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 82.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.