Sholom
Sholom was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,749 among boys’ names; 1,497 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Sholom and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sholom by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sholom?
#2,749 among boys’ names, 2025
Sholom rose from #2,854 in 2015 to #2,749 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 27.5 per million.
52 babies in 2020, the peak
Sholom peaked in 2020, when 52 boys were given it, #2,495 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,749 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,705 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 46 | #2,796 | 26.9 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,908 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,111 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,495 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,181 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,223 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,629 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,879 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,854 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,613 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,884 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,106 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,229 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,173 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,154 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,901 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,776 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,371 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,511 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,142 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,979 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,591 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,045 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,750 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,810 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,381 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,965 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,130 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,740 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,565 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,787 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,584 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,787 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,145 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,105 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,315 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,455 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,412 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,804 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,224 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,558 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,691 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #3,005 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,809 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,535 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,978 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,521 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,358 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,718 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,918 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,995 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,569 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,541 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,647 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,339 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,650 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,889 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,354 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,827 | 4.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,992 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,013 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,487 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,219 | 3.7 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,296 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,269 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,137 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,192 | 2.7 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,713 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sholom a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sholom has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sholom: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sholom, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,497 Americans ever recorded as Sholom. The median Sholom alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,064 people named Sholom (6 women and girls, 1,058 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 464 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 565 |
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 Sholom born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 23 | #659 | 8.6× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #751 | 4.0× |
Where Sholom is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sholom is most over-represented in New York: since 1918 it was given 8.6 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 Sholom 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 Sholom
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 Sholom and names like it
- Compare Sholom and NaftaliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSholom peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sholom since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Sholom.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sholom alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.