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Shalamar
How to Pronounce Shalamar
Pronounced SHAL-uh-mar /ˈʃæləmɑːr/Low
Meaning: Shalamar traces to Shalimar, a Persian and Urdu name famous from the Shalimar Gardens of Lahore and Kashmir and often glossed abode of love; in American use it also echoes the popular rhythm and blues group Shalamar of the same era.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Shalamar echoes Shalimar, the Persian and Urdu name of the celebrated Mughal gardens, carrying the sense abode of love. Its brief American appearance, entirely within the nineteen-eighties, overlaps the fame of the group Shalamar, and it reached its modest high right at the decade's start.
It was never common, given to only about twenty boys a year at its peak, and its run had ended by the early nineteen-nineties. A boy named Shalamar around nineteen eighty would be in his mid-forties today. The name pairs an exotic garden lineage with a distinctly of-the-moment cultural echo.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Shalamar mean?
It traces to Shalimar, a Persian and Urdu name tied to the Shalimar Gardens and often glossed abode of love.
How do you pronounce Shalamar?
It is said SHAL-uh-mar /ˈʃæləmɑːr/, three syllables with the stress at the front.
Is Shalamar a boy or girl name?
Shalamar is recorded here as a boy's name.
How popular is Shalamar?
It was always rare, given to only about twenty boys a year at its peak around the start of the nineteen-eighties.