Shloime vs Shloma
American parents have registered 613 Shloimes since 1880, against 517 Shlomas. Shloime is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Shloime Shloma
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Shloime for 24 years and Shloma for 18 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1974–1982 Shloma ahead
- 1985–1993 Shloime ahead
- 1994–1997 Shloma ahead
- 2000–2017 Shloime ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2021–2024 Shloma ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Shloime | Shloma | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 613 | 517 |
| Most in one year | 29 | 30 |
| Babies in 2025 | 29 | 20 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 510 |
| Median age today | 14 | 11 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2018 |
| Best rank | 3,757th boys | 3,607th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,757th | 4,857th |
| First recorded | 1982 | 1974 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 613 | 0 / 517 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Shloimes alive today are over 14; half the Shlomas are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shloime and Shloma.