Shlomo
Shlomo was given to 211 boys in 2025, #1,049 among boys’ names; 5,673 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,520 Americans named Shlomo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shlomo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shlomo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shlomo is “a Jewish male given name from Hebrew, feminine equivalent Shulamith, equivalent to English Solomon.” Its etymology gives the sense “peace” (שָׁלוֹם).
Transliteration of Biblical Hebrew שְׁלֹמֹה (šəlōmōʰ), from שָׁלוֹם (šālôm, “peace”). Doublet of Solomon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shlomo?
#1,049 among boys’ names, 2025
Shlomo rose from #1,110 in 2015 to #1,049 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.12 per 1,000.
235 babies in 2024, the peak
Shlomo peaked in 2024, when 235 boys were given it, #965 among boys’ names. The 211 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 211 | #1,049 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 235 | #965 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 218 | #1,013 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,107 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 203 | #1,057 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 178 | #1,110 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 200 | #1,039 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 196 | #1,039 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 177 | #1,102 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,148 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 174 | #1,110 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,126 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 156 | #1,159 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,236 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,315 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,205 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 156 | #1,165 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,492 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,270 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 151 | #1,135 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 138 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,346 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,217 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,211 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,384 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,249 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 74 | #1,525 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 74 | #1,497 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,256 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,507 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,181 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 64 | #1,487 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 63 | #1,486 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 62 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 66 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 56 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 42 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 46 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 41 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,588 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,518 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 25 | #2,000 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,104 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,695 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,025 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,802 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,868 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,279 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,559 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,295 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,963 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shlomo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shlomo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shlomo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shlomo, and how old are they?
5,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,673 Americans ever recorded as Shlomo. The median Shlomo alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 4,503 people named Shlomo (5 women and girls, 4,498 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 74 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 262 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 846 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,460 |
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 Shlomo born?
The states with the most babies named Shlomo are New Jersey, New York and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 102 | #97 | 9.1× |
| New York | 93 | #211 | 9.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,058 | 0.1× |
Where Shlomo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shlomo is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1945 it was given 9.1 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 Shlomo 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, Shlomo is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 211 of their 375 babies (56%), again the 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 Shlomo
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 Shlomo and names like it
- Compare Shlomo and ShlomeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShlomo peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shlomo since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Shlomo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Shlomo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shlomo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.