Sholom
Masculine · “peace”
Sholom is the Ashkenazi saying of shalom — the everyday Hebrew word for peace, and the ordinary way of greeting someone. Very few names are also a thing you can simply say to a person as you pass them in the street.
How old is the name Sholom?
Sholom first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Sholom alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,400 people named Sholom are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sholom most popular?
Sholom peaked in 1984, reaching #2159 nationally. Today it ranks #2718, 559 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shalom to Sholom
The story of Sholom
The word runs through the Hebrew Bible and through daily Jewish life — a greeting, a farewell, the last word of the priestly blessing, and in some rabbinic readings a name for God. As a given name it belongs mainly to Ashkenazi families, and the spelling tells you which tradition: Shalom is Israeli and Sephardi, while Sholom and Sholem are the Eastern European vowels that emigrants brought to New York. It has stayed close to observant communities in the United States rather than crossing into general use, which is why its record here is steady rather than fashionable.
Meaning
peace, wholeness
Hebrew shalom is built on the root sh-l-m, which carries wholeness and completeness as much as the absence of war. Sholom is the Ashkenazi vowel — the same word Sephardi and modern Israeli Hebrew say as shalom, and Yiddish says as sholem.
How the name formed
- shalom
- sholem
- Sholom
Related forms: Shalom · Sholem · Salam
Pronouncing Sholom
SHOH-lem
Two syllables, stress on the first, the second vowel reduced almost to nothing. Israeli Hebrew says the same word shah-LOME, with the stress at the end — the difference is the Ashkenazi vowel shift, not a different name.
Nicknames for Sholom
Limited
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
- 1918
- Most boys named
- 202449 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2159reached in 1984
- Change vs 2024
- −4.1%47 in 2025, from 49
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.
Sholom in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shalom in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Sholem in Yiddish — spelling variant
- Salam in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, Florida.
Sholoms among us
people named Sholom are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 36,342 born in 2025 was named Sholom
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 Texas test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sholom's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Texas climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Texas's path sketches the road Sholom is walking now.
Sholom 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 Sholom is headed
Sholom 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.
Sholom beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sholom in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Its meaning is not merely known but in daily use, in Hebrew and in Yiddish, as a greeting.
- Firmly rooted in a living tradition rather than borrowed from one.
- Spelled consistently inside the communities that use it, so it is rarely garbled where it matters most.
- Outside Jewish communities the sh- opening and the unfamiliar vowel will be mispronounced, usually as sha-LOM.
- It is strongly identified with observant Ashkenazi families, which is either exactly the point or something to weigh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sholoms are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Sholom are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sholom in 2025?
- Sholom ranks #2718 among US boy names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sholom?
- About 1 in every 36,342 US boys born in 2025 was named Sholom — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sholom with classmates?
- Sholom will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sholom
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