Shlomo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Jewish male given name from Hebrew, feminine equivalent Shulamith, equivalent to English Solomon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɫoʊmoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shlomo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 10th most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 276as שלמה(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 478as שלמה
- RORomania≈1 in 962as שלמה
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shlomo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named סולומון, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שלמה in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 2 more, ሰለሞን in ET Ethiopia and סלמון in BG Bulgaria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Jewish male given name from Hebrew, feminine equivalent Shulamith, equivalent to English Solomon.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shlomo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #174 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | ሰለሞን | 47 |
| IL Israel | #13 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 276 | 5.7K | שלמה | 127 |
| US United States | — | 25,997as Solomon | 1 in 13K | 47K | Shlomo | 264 |
| RO Romania | #63 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 962 | — | שלמה | 10 |
| MA Morocco | #61 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | שלמה | 7 |
| QA Qatar | #10 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 478 | — | שלמה | 1 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | סלמון | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | #53 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | שלמה | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Shlomo | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shlomo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of SOLOMON .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rashib. 1040FRnot in their usual nameFrench rabbi and commentator (1040–1105)
- S. An-skyb. 1863PLnot in their usual nameRussian Jewish author (1863-1920)
- Shelomo Dov Goiteinb. 1900DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist (1900–1985)
- Steven Hillb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1922-2016)
- Shlomo Veneziab. 1923ITGreek-born Italian Jew, survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (1923-2012)
- Shlomo Avinerib. 1933ILIsraeli political scientist, professor
- Shlomo Ben-Amib. 1943ILIsraeli diplomat
- Shlomo Glicksteinb. 1958ILIsraeli tennis player
- Shlomo Benartzib. 1968ILbehavioural economist
- Eliezer Yudkowskyb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.5K | #4,226 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 211 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #4,226 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Shlomo?
- In the etymology graph, Süleyman, Selim and Salomon are forms of the same name in other languages; Solly is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Shlomo mean, and where does it come from?
- A Jewish male given name from Hebrew, feminine equivalent Shulamith, equivalent to English Solomon. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shlomo?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɫoʊmoʊ/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Shlomo a male or female name?
- Shlomo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shlomo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named סולומון in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shlomo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,997 people named Solomon in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Shlomo compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Shlomo is the 174th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shlomoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shlomo” — the 174th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.