Shilo
Shilo is given to both girls and boys: 30 girls and 142 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,651 among girls’ names and #1,343 among boys’, #2,450 among all names counting both); 3,123 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Shilo every year since 2023.
An estimated 3,020 Americans named Shilo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 12 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shilo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shilo?
#4,651 among girls’ names, 2025
Shilo rose from #6,427 in 2015 to #4,651 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 18.7 per million.
172 babies in 2025, the peak
Shilo peaked in 2025, when 172 babies were given it (30 girls, #4,651 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 27 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,651 | 142 | #1,343 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,008 | 101 | #1,671 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,630 | 92 | #1,771 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,775 | 42 | #2,991 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,642 | 27 | #3,984 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,051 | 23 | #4,397 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,532 | 16 | #5,757 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,126 | 16 | #5,734 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,229 | 15 | #6,022 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,372 | 16 | #5,754 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,427 | 13 | #6,615 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,670 | 20 | #4,835 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,988 | 8 | #9,518 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,231 | 8 | #9,564 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,554 | 12 | #6,931 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,612 | 21 | #4,652 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,209 | 19 | #5,070 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,635 | 20 | #4,866 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,553 | 14 | #6,209 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,683 | 10 | #7,900 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,756 | 8 | #8,959 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,182 | 8 | #8,791 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,842 | 16 | #5,002 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,091 | 6 | #10,459 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,270 | 12 | #5,951 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,753 | 17 | #4,529 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,060 | 13 | #5,266 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,126 | 8 | #7,433 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,877 | 22 | #3,327 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,031 | 17 | #3,985 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,487 | 27 | #2,747 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,428 | 23 | #3,087 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,337 | 16 | #3,980 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,397 | 16 | #3,886 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,922 | 21 | #3,088 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,697 | 10 | #5,310 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,653 | 16 | #3,589 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,463 | 14 | #3,673 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,505 | 19 | #2,815 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,895 | 16 | #3,106 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,318 | 14 | #3,362 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,773 | 12 | #3,651 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,232 | 13 | #3,388 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,217 | 18 | #2,690 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,112 | 21 | #2,403 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,640 | 20 | #2,520 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,567 | 39 | #1,526 |
| 1978 | 89 | #1,345 | 23 | #2,120 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,634 | 20 | #2,343 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,634 | 28 | #1,816 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,474 | 29 | #1,749 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,460 | 31 | #1,613 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,706 | 23 | #1,921 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,213 | 19 | #2,146 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,417 | 11 | #3,116 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,152 | 9 | #3,484 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shilo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,123 Americans recorded as Shilo, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shilo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shilo, and how old are they?
3,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,123 Americans ever recorded as Shilo. The median Shilo alive today is 32 years old; half are between 12 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 2,319 people named Shilo (1,591 women and girls, 728 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 848 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 765 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 617 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 791 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shilo born?
The states with the most babies named Shilo are Texas, North Carolina and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 8 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shilo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shilo?
Shilo is a less common spelling of Shiloh: SSA has recorded 3,123 Shilo and 24,531 Shiloh since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,873 babies since 1880, Shilo is the fourth most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 172 of their 2,677 babies (6.4%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shilo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shilo and names like it
- Compare Shilo and ShilohBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShilo peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shilo since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shilo.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shilo alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.