Shulamit
Shulamit is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Shulamit
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Shulamit is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hebrew
The Story of Shulamit
The earliest SSA record of Shulamit as a baby girl name dates back to 1971, when 9 babies received it. 1983 was its biggest year on record, with 11 newborns named Shulamit — #5,824 in the national rankings. About 33% of every Shulamit on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Shulamit last appeared in the published SSA data in 2013, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 87 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Shulamit
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About the name Shulamit
Shulamit is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1971 and has accumulated 87 births in the dataset. Shulamit's peak popularity came in 1983 when it ranked #5,824. Use the chart and map above to compare Shulamit's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.