girls:
1.2k births since 1961
#4537 (21st percentile)
boys:
130 births since 1973
#4456 (3rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1961
#6431 (17th percentile)
The name Shalon is the #6,431 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,311 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 16.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,537 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 1,181 births since 1961. For boys, it ranks #4,456 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 130 births since 1973.
Shalon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Shalon is available in 50 out of the 51 years between 1961 and 2011 (49 years for girls and 20 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 Shalon has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shalon reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 21.1% percentile (ranked #606) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 102 births per million (ranked 21.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
For boys, Shalon reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #667) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shalon".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Shalon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Shalon is pronounced as shuh-LUHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-LAHN, at 29.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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