Shlomo
From Hebrew, built on the root sh-l-m, the word behind shalom: it means peace. In Poland it stays rare, carried by about 160 men, with no newborns recorded since 2000.
Shlomo Pronunciation
What Shlomo means
Where Shlomo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shlomo comes from Hebrew, built on the root sh-l-m, the same root that gives shalom, peace. In the Hebrew Bible this is the name of King Solomon, Shlomo, son of David. The Chronicler ties Solomon to menuchah, a settled quiet in the land, and reads the name as belonging to peace. The name means "his peace."
Among Jewish families it stayed close to that meaning for centuries. A boy called Shlomo carried a word for peace as his own. The great medieval commentator known as Rashi was born Shlomo ben Yitzhak in Troyes, and generations of scholars and cantors have answered to the name since.
It seldom lands on a Polish class register. When it does, a teacher reading the roll meets a Hebrew word sitting between the Kacpers and the Piotrs. The origin stays visible.
Peace is the whole of it. The meaning sits in the root from the start, not added by a later gloss. In Polish that sense is pokój, and Shlomo has carried it since the first Solomon.
How many people are named Shlomo
1 in 131767 men in Poland is named Shlomo. 162 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2540 among male names.
Shlomo as a middle name
Shlomo is a first name for 162 men in Poland and a middle name for another 100, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 713th, between Jairo (100) and Brayan (99).
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#711 Hussain100
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#712 Jairo100
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#713 Shlomo100
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#714 Brayan99
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#715 Mathew99