Shalene

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Modern variant of Charlene

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025

Shalene is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 415K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 58K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 171K

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.

United States (measured from records)

802 people, 2020

Record sources
203 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Modern variant of Charlene.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Shalene 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.

Where Shalene is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8021 in 415K793Shalene203
ZA South Africa≈330 est.≈1 in 171K—Shalene23
PH Philippines≈160 est.≈1 in 693K—Shalene18
CA Canada≈150 est.≈1 in 256K5Shalene69
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 494KlistedShalene52
NZ New Zealand≈22 est.≈1 in 226K—Shalene9
GY Guyana131 in 58K13—3
NA Namibia≈12 est.≈1 in 215K1—1

802 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; the hanks-first-names-2001 register; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Shalene is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Shàlene

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Shalene,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Shalene
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020793#14,636
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199038—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198035—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197235—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197135—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197834—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198932—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198531—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198630—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197630—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198429—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199226—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shalene mean, and where does it come from?
Modern variant of Charlene. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Shalene a male or female name?
Shalene is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
In which country does Shalene have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 802 people named Shalene, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shalene.
Where is Shalene most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shalene is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shalene?
In the United States, the national register counted 802 people named Shalene in 2020, about 1 in 415 thousand residents.

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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, “Shalene”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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