Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Sholem

#20,490 most common boys' name of all time · #53,846 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1958–2003

Rank among boys
#20,490
Rank overall
#53,846 of 105,966
First appeared
1958
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
44
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1959 #3,279
Best rank
#3,279 1959
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
196019802000

Sholem first appears in 1958. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2003 — 6 6 #9,851
1989 — 7 7 #6,505
1984 — 6 6 #5,899
1977 — 6 6 #5,473
1973 — 6 6 #4,837
1959 — 8 8 #3,279
1958 — 5 5 #4,492