Sholom is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Sholom is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Sholom. In the SmartGenius ranking, Sholom is #2,546 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sholom.
In fact, the name Sholom hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Sholom wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1984, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,910, 24 parents chose it in 1984 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Sholom, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sholom was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Sholom a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,567, for a total of 43 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Sholom seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Sholom is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 937 Americans in total bear this name. And these 937 men are located in only three states: Florida, New Jersey and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Sholom and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Sholom in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 16,775 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Sholom present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Sholom is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Sholom and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sholom, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Orange
Lion
Orange
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sholom
Sholom
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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H
O
L
O
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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H
O
L
O
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sholom sounds like this:
