Shulem
Shulem was given to 79 boys in 2025, #1,957 among boys’ names; 1,584 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Shulem 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 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shulem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shulem?
#1,957 among boys’ names, 2025
Shulem rose from #2,557 in 2015 to #1,957 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.6 to 46.3 per million.
92 babies in 2023, the peak
Shulem peaked in 2023, when 92 boys were given it, #1,772 among boys’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #1,957 | 46.3 |
| 2024 | 78 | #1,994 | 45.3 |
| 2023 | 92 | #1,772 | 53.8 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,111 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,190 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,206 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,256 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,379 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,630 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,432 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,557 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,248 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,486 | 26.4 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,408 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,400 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,504 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,280 | 29.2 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,709 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,412 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,342 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,945 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,869 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,704 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,328 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,130 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,403 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,268 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,281 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,430 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,018 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,072 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,809 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,651 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,572 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,865 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,285 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,826 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,126 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,192 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,605 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,289 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,895 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,400 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,117 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,739 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,360 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,396 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shulem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shulem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shulem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shulem, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,584 Americans ever recorded as Shulem. The median Shulem alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 976 people named Shulem (3 women and girls, 973 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 563 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 820 |
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 Shulem born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 73 | #265 | 10.7× |
Where Shulem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shulem is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 10.7 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 Shulem 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 Shulem
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 Shulem and names like it
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Shulem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shulem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.