Shulamith — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shulamith

The Social Security Administration has registered 20 babies named Shulamith between 1944 and 1986, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shulamith currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1986. The name reached its historical peak in 1944, when 5 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shulamith performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Shulamith shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shulamith in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shulamith 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 20 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.