Shlome
Shlome was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,928 among boys’ names; 799 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shlome by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shlome?
#2,928 among boys’ names, 2025
Shlome rose from #3,670 in 2015 to #2,928 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 25.2 per million.
43 babies in 2025, the peak
Shlome peaked in 2025, when 43 boys were given it, #2,928 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 40 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,928 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,092 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,403 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,856 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,964 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,637 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,331 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,359 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,438 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,078 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,670 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,763 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,437 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,874 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,628 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,431 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,895 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,867 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,549 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,485 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,510 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,238 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,609 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,760 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,820 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,888 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,347 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,224 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,592 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,839 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,676 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,629 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,544 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,086 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,935 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,027 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,113 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,956 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,176 | 2.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,891 | 3.2 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,567 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shlome a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shlome has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shlome: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shlome, and how old are they?
An estimated 786 Americans named Shlome and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 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 511 people named Shlome (9 women and girls, 502 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 579 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Shlome born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 437 | not ranked | 8.9× |
Where Shlome is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shlome is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 8.9 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 Shlome 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, Shlome is the second most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 375 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
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 Shlome
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 Shlome and names like it
- Compare Shlome and ShlomoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShlome peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shlome since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shlome.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shlome alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.