girls:
234 births since 1966
#5482 (4th percentile)
boys:
83 births since 1980
#4503 (2nd percentile)
overall:
317 births since 1966
#7422 (4th percentile)
The name Shalamar is the #7,422 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 317 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,482 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 234 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,503 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 1980.
Shalamar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Shalamar is available in 21 out of the 41 years between 1966 and 2006 (21 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shalamar has been given predominantly to girls, with 73.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2006, 100.0% of babies named Shalamar were girls.
For girls, Shalamar reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #764) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
For boys, Shalamar reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #666) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shalamar".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Shalamar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.3% confident that Shalamar is pronounced as shuh-LUH-mahr, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHA-luh-MAHR, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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