Shalon
Shalon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 868th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1977168 births
- Best rank
- #868in 1977
- Since 1961
- 1,311people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,181 girls have been named Shalon in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 168 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 168 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 48%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 130 boys have also been given it, 9.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1977, its biggest year
Shalon was the 868th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Shalon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carisapeak 1977
- Tamikapeak 1975
- Lakeyshapeak 1977
- Anitrapeak 1976
- Timikapeak 1976
- Kanikapeak 1978
- Mistypeak 1977
- Rashidapeak 1977
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.