# Shalom (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shalom/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,689 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,460 / 1,229 (33% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 588, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (shalóm).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 39 | 3,903 |
| 2012 | 44 | 3,639 |
| 2013 | 50 | 3,260 |
| 2014 | 45 | 3,536 |
| 2015 | 51 | 3,249 |
| 2016 | 42 | 3,698 |
| 2017 | 52 | 3,137 |
| 2018 | 42 | 3,663 |
| 2019 | 30 | 4,640 |
| 2020 | 35 | 4,067 |
| 2021 | 36 | 4,076 |
| 2022 | 40 | 3,821 |
| 2023 | 47 | 3,422 |
| 2024 | 42 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 51 | 3,163 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 66 | 2,050 |
| 2012 | 66 | 2,089 |
| 2013 | 61 | 2,177 |
| 2014 | 74 | 1,958 |
| 2015 | 91 | 1,715 |
| 2016 | 77 | 1,917 |
| 2017 | 80 | 1,855 |
| 2018 | 71 | 2,043 |
| 2019 | 89 | 1,760 |
| 2020 | 91 | 1,714 |
| 2021 | 107 | 1,603 |
| 2022 | 92 | 1,791 |
| 2023 | 99 | 1,708 |
| 2024 | 96 | 1,732 |
| 2025 | 95 | 1,725 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 1,608 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,720 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,707 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,501 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,635 |
| 2017 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,809 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,492 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## People named Shalom

- Shalom Harlow, Canadian model and actress
- Shalom Brune-Franklin, British-born Australian actress
- Shalom Auslander, American writer
- Shalom Koboshvili, Georgian artist
- Ben Bernanke, American economist (born 1953)
- Schalom Ben-Chorin, German-Israeli journalist and religious studies scholar (1913–1999)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.