Shulem
Masculine · “peace”
Shulem is the Yiddish of Shalom — peace, and specifically the wholeness that Hebrew means by it, which is more than the absence of war.
How old is the name Shulem?
Shulem first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Shulem is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,600 people named Shulem are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shulem most popular?
Shulem peaked in 2023, reaching #1765 nationally. Today it ranks #1942, 177 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shalom to Shulem
The story of Shulem
Shalom serves as greeting, farewell and blessing, and as a name it is used across Jewish communities. Sholem Aleichem, the Yiddish writer whose Tevye stories became Fiddler on the Roof, took his pen name from the greeting itself. Shulem is the Hasidic pronunciation and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
peace, wholeness
From the Hebrew shalom, from a root meaning 'to be complete' or 'whole'. Yiddish pronunciation gives Sholem and Shulem. The same root gives Solomon and the Arabic salaam. The Hebrew is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- shalom
- Sholem
- Shulem
Related forms: שלום · Sholem · Shalom
Pronouncing Shulem
SHOO-lum
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew shalom is shah-LOHM with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Shulem
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
- 1959
- Most boys named
- 202392 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1765reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +1.3%79 in 2025, from 78
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.
Shulem in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- שלום in Hebrew — transliteration
- Sholem in Yiddish — spelling variant
- Shalom in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Shulems among us
people named Shulem are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 21,621 born in 2025 was named Shulem
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 Marciano test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shulem's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marciano climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marciano's path sketches the road Shulem is walking now.
Shulem 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 Shulem is headed
Shulem looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Shulem beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shulem 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 records a living Hasidic pronunciation tradition.
- Shuli is a warm and widely used short form.
- The vowels mark it as specifically Hasidic rather than Israeli.
- Shalom is the form most people will recognize.
- It is closely associated with one community's naming practice.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shulems are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Shulem are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shulem in 2025?
- Shulem ranks #1942 among US boy names in 2025, with 79 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shulem?
- About 1 in every 21,621 US boys born in 2025 was named Shulem — 79 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shulem with classmates?
- Shulem will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Shulem
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