Entry № 9648 · Hebrew origin

Shulamit Shulamit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shoo-lah-MEET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Peaceful (biblical Song of Songs heroine; Shulamit Aloni)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "peaceful (biblical song of songs heroine; shulamit aloni)".

Shulamit is from the Hebrew Shulammīth (שולמית — peaceful one). 10th century BCE); one of the most-celebrated love poems in world literature; the only book of the Hebrew Bible centered on a feminine voice and feminine erotic poetry; "I am dark and beautiful, daughters of Jerusalem" (Song of Songs 1:5) is one of the most-quoted lines from the entire Hebrew Bible; her identity has been debated by biblical scholars for 2,500+ years; widely identified with Solomon's beloved or the personification of Israel/Jerusalem itself. Shulamit Volkov — Israeli historian.

Peaceful (biblical Song of Songs heroine; Shulamit Aloni) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

שולמית
Transliteration
Shulammīth
Pronunciation
/ ʃuːlɑːˈmiːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shulamit stands.

Shulamit does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shulamits before her.

Real people
Shulamit Aloni
Israeli politician + Israel Prize.
1928 – 2014
Shulamit Ran
Israeli-American Pulitzer composer.
born 1949
In fiction
Shulammite (Song of Songs)
Iconic biblical beloved.

Names connected to Shulamit.

The number behind Shulamit.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shulamit reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.