Shalom
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shalom is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 102K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shalom counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Shalom | 60 |
| IL Israel | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Shalom | 57 |
| US United States | 3,268 | 1 in 102K | 2.1K | Shalom | 247 |
| PH Philippines | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Shalom | 49 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Shalom | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 14 | — | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 9 | 1 in 83K | 9 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shalom is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
peace
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, Hebrew; peace
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Jewish: from the Hebrew vocabulary word shalom peace.
as a word
In Portuguese, shalom (Jewish greeting or farewell)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicolas Notovitchb. 1858UAnot in their usual nameRussian journalist
- Sholom Schwartzbardb. 1886FRnot in their usual nameRussian-born Moldovan-French Yiddish poet of Jewish descent and anarchist (1886-1938)
- Schalom Ben-Chorinb. 1913DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Israeli journalist and religious studies scholar (1913–1999)
- Shalom Nagarb. 1930ILIsraeli prison guard
- Shalom Hanochb. 1946ILIsraeli singer
- Ben Bernankeb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican economist (born 1953)
- Shalom Harlowb. 1973CACanadian model and actress
- Shalom Michaelshvilib. 1978ILIsraeli comedian
- Shalom Brune-Franklinb. 1994GBBritish-born Australian actress
- Sagiv Yehezkelb. 1995ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #5,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #5,302 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 95 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 51 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 14 | #23,864 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 14 | #23,864 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #585 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shalom mean, and where does it come from?
- A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Shalom a male or female name?
- Shalom is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Shalom?
- In the etymology graph, Süleyman, Selim and Salomon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Shalom have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Shalom in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shalom.
- How common is the name Shalom?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,268 people named Shalom in 2020, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shalomThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shalom”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.