Shilo — #5035 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Shilo

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,822 babies named Shilo between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shilo currently holds the #5035 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 89 babies received it in a single year. Shilo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,128 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shilo performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 586 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shilo shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 139 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shilo in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shilo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,822 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.