Shalom
Masculine · “peace”
Shalom is given to both — 2,460 boys and 1,229 girls since 1880. See Shalom as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Shalom is peace — but the Hebrew is wider than the English, meaning wholeness and completeness as much as the absence of war.
How old is the name Shalom?
Shalom first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Shalom alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,400 people named Shalom are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shalom most popular?
Shalom peaked in 2021, reaching #1597 nationally. Today it ranks #1708, 111 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shalom to Shalom
The story of Shalom
Shalom serves as greeting, farewell and blessing in Hebrew, and as a name it is used in Israel and in Jewish communities worldwide. Sholom Aleichem, the Yiddish writer, took his pen name from the greeting itself. It appears in American records for both sexes and is in current use.
Meaning
peace, wholeness, completeness
From the Hebrew shalom, from a root meaning 'to be complete' or 'to be whole'. The sense runs well past the absence of conflict to soundness and integrity. The same root gives Solomon and the Arabic salaam. The word is ordinary Hebrew and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- shalom
- Shalom
Related forms: שלום · Sholom · Salaam
Pronouncing Shalom
shah-LOHM
Two syllables, stress on the second. Yiddish Sholom places the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Shalom
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
- 1947
- Most boys named
- 2021107 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1597reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −1.0%95 in 2025, from 96
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.
Shalom in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- שלום in Hebrew — transliteration
- Sholom in Yiddish — spelling variant
- Salaam in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, California.
Shaloms among us
people named Shalom are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 17,980 born in 2025 was named Shalom
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Radames test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shalom's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Radames climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Radames's path sketches the road Shalom is walking now.
Shalom sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Shalom is headed
Shalom should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Shalom beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shalom in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The wholeness sense is wider and better than the English 'peace'.
- It is one of the most recognizable Hebrew words in the world.
- The Arabic salaam is the same root, which gives it real reach.
- It is a greeting as well as a name, which some families will weigh.
- It is thoroughly unisex in Hebrew and American use.
- The stress placement differs between Hebrew and Yiddish.
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Masculine · #1708 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Shaloms are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Shalom are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shalom in 2025?
- Shalom ranks #1708 among US boy names in 2025, with 95 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shalom?
- About 1 in every 17,980 US boys born in 2025 was named Shalom — 95 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shalom with classmates?
- Shalom will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Shalom
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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