Shulamit
Shulamit was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,783 among girls’ names; 95 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shulamit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shulamit mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shulamit is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Shulamith, masculine equivalent Shlomo, equivalent to English Salome.”
From Hebrew שולמית.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shulamit?
#11,783 among girls’ names, 2025
Shulamit entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,783 in 2025.
11 babies in 1983, the peak
Shulamit peaked in 1983, when 11 girls were given it, #6,160 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,783 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,884 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,070 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,227 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,156 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,416 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,910 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,223 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,676 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,160 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #11,678 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,041 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,653 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,411 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,922 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shulamit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shulamit has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shulamit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shulamit, and how old are they?
An estimated 92 Americans named Shulamit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 352 people named Shulamit (352 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 368 babies since 1880, Shulamit is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 31 babies (26%), again the second 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 Shulamit
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 Shulamit and names like it
- Compare Shulamit and ShulamisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShulamit peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Shulamit.
- Names starting with SMost given first.