Shloma
Masculine · “peace”
Shloma is Yiddish for Solomon, and Solomon is peace: the Hebrew shalom sits inside it plainly. The king it belongs to built the first temple and is remembered for wisdom rather than for conquest, and the name has been in continuous Jewish use for three thousand years.
How old is the name Shloma?
Shloma first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Shloma is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Shloma are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shloma most popular?
Shloma peaked in 2018, reaching #3607 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 1,250 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
Where it comes from
From Shlomo to Shloma
The story of Shloma
Yiddish reshaped every Hebrew name it carried, and it did so consistently: Moshe became Moishe, Yaakov became Yankev, Shlomo became Shloma and Shloime. Those forms were the everyday names of Ashkenazi Jewish life for centuries in central and eastern Europe, and they crossed to America with the great migrations. In most families they were traded for English names within a generation, so Shloma now appears mainly in Hasidic and Haredi communities, where Yiddish is still a living daily language rather than a heritage one.
Meaning
peace; his peace
Hebrew Shlomo, from shalom, peace, wholeness and wellbeing. Shloma is the Yiddish form, which shifts the vowels in the way Yiddish shifts Hebrew names generally.
How the name formed
- Shlomo
- Shloma
Related forms: שלמה · Solomon · Sulayman · Salomón · Shloime
Pronouncing Shloma
SHLOH-muh
Two syllables, stress in front. The opening shl- is a single cluster that English does not otherwise use, though English speakers manage it after one try.
Nicknames for Shloma
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
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 201830 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3607reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −23.1%20 in 2025, from 26
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.
Shloma in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- שלמה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Solomon in English — same name
- Sulayman in Arabic — same name
- Salomón in Spanish — same name
- Shloime in Yiddish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Shlomas among us
people named Shloma are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Shloma
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 Zohaib test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shloma's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Zohaib climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Zohaib's path sketches the road Shloma is walking now.
Shloma 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
Shloma beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shloma in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is peace, stated in one word and never in doubt.
- It carries three thousand years of continuous documented use.
- Solomon and Sol are available for settings where the Yiddish form is awkward.
- The shl- opening is unusual in English and gets mispronounced or respelled.
- Shloma, Shloime and Shlomo all appear, so records within one family may differ.
- It reads as specifically religious, which is the point in some families and a consideration in others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shlomas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Shloma are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shloma in 2025?
- Shloma ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shloma?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Shloma — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shloma with classmates?
- Shloma will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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