Shalene
Feminine
Shalene looks like a member of a well-known family and is built quite differently: the names it resembles are a name plus an ending, and this one is a prefix plus an ending, with nothing in the middle.
How old is the name Shalene?
Shalene first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Shalene alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 800 people named Shalene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shalene most popular?
Shalene peaked in 1972, reaching #2173 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shalene
Two names can look identical in structure and be made by different operations. One is a name with a decoration; the other is two decorations with nothing to decorate. The second kind is harder to trace, impossible to translate, and entirely legitimate — it is how a naming system with a stock of interchangeable parts produces new members once the obvious stems have been used. The ending here has its own dating problem: the same sound was written -lene, -leen and -line across three decades, so the spelling tells you when the name was chosen far more precisely than the name itself does.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source. Charlene and Darlene are built on Charles and on the word darling; this name has no comparable stem. The front is a prefix and the back is a suffix, and neither is a word.
Pronouncing Shalene
shuh-LEEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back, which is what this ending does to every name it is attached to.
Nicknames for Shalene
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 199038 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2173reached in 1972
- Change vs 2004
- +33.3%8 in 2005, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shalenes among us
people named Shalene are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shalene sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The back stress gives it a strong finish and protects it from clipping.
- It is read correctly on sight with nothing difficult in it.
- It is rare while sounding entirely familiar.
- Shalene, Shaleen and Shalane are all possible spellings of the sound.
- The ending dates the spelling to a particular stretch of decades.
- Neither half carries a meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shalenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Shalene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shalene in 2025?
- Shalene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shalene with classmates?
- Shalene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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