Shiloh
Shiloh is a unisex name: 1,098 girls and 1,220 boys were given it in 2025 (#281 among girls’ names and #278 among boys’, #289 among all names counting both); 24,531 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Shiloh every year since 2025.
An estimated 24,200 Americans named Shiloh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 17.
Shiloh is among the most evenly shared names of 2025: #5 of 43 unisex names by how close its split is to half and half.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shiloh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shiloh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shiloh is “a unisex given name from Hebrew.”
From Biblical Hebrew שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה (shiló).
/ˈʃaɪloʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shiloh?
#281 among girls’ names, 2025
Shiloh rose from #605 in 2015 to #281 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.27 to 0.68 per 1,000.
2,318 babies in 2025, the peak
Shiloh peaked in 2025, when 2,318 babies were given it (1,098 girls, #281 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,222 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,098 | #281 | 1,220 | #278 |
| 2024 | 1,222 | #260 | 1,039 | #334 |
| 2023 | 1,109 | #283 | 820 | #389 |
| 2022 | 938 | #343 | 630 | #485 |
| 2021 | 774 | #411 | 485 | #579 |
| 2020 | 683 | #453 | 444 | #615 |
| 2019 | 673 | #465 | 367 | #691 |
| 2018 | 558 | #558 | 344 | #707 |
| 2017 | 519 | #582 | 279 | #813 |
| 2016 | 498 | #605 | 260 | #866 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 485 | #605 | 247 | #894 |
| 2014 | 482 | #604 | 196 | #1,034 |
| 2013 | 446 | #631 | 168 | #1,105 |
| 2012 | 450 | #636 | 170 | #1,101 |
| 2011 | 466 | #622 | 169 | #1,100 |
| 2010 | 480 | #616 | 157 | #1,171 |
| 2009 | 509 | #593 | 166 | #1,117 |
| 2008 | 474 | #651 | 163 | #1,128 |
| 2007 | 367 | #788 | 142 | #1,243 |
| 2006 | 183 | #1,292 | 103 | #1,489 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,202 | 63 | #1,999 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,852 | 68 | #1,825 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,840 | 68 | #1,774 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,981 | 65 | #1,785 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,185 | 76 | #1,582 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,796 | 74 | #1,600 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,675 | 86 | #1,379 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,593 | 75 | #1,484 |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,527 | 82 | #1,359 |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,605 | 60 | #1,627 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,756 | 54 | #1,674 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,569 | 70 | #1,401 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,116 | 56 | #1,610 |
| 1992 | 69 | #2,001 | 54 | #1,630 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,124 | 44 | #1,814 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,967 | 37 | #2,036 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,917 | 38 | #1,945 |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,085 | 33 | #1,981 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,304 | 38 | #1,753 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,669 | 26 | #2,216 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,073 | 46 | #1,478 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,766 | 38 | #1,600 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,663 | 28 | #1,949 |
| 1982 | 78 | #1,530 | 42 | #1,510 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,351 | 31 | #1,855 |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,392 | 56 | #1,237 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,259 | 48 | #1,351 |
| 1978 | 130 | #1,048 | 62 | #1,118 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,635 | 53 | #1,219 |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,296 | 52 | #1,209 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,871 | 64 | #1,039 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,705 | 34 | #1,516 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,766 | 33 | #1,504 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,018 | 27 | #1,714 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,100 | 29 | #1,664 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,390 | 28 | #1,651 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,486 | 7 | #3,889 |
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 Shiloh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 24,531 Americans recorded as Shiloh, 62% are girls and 38% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shiloh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shiloh, and how old are they?
24,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 24,531 Americans ever recorded as Shiloh. The median Shiloh alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 12,323 people named Shiloh (8,288 women and girls, 4,035 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,900 |
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 Shiloh born?
The states with the most babies named Shiloh are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 238 | #281 | 0.9× |
| California | 187 | #365 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 176 | #235 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 140 | #169 | 1.1× |
| New York | 120 | #358 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 108 | #232 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 99 | #256 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 83 | #170 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 80 | #222 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 78 | #314 | 0.8× |
Where Shiloh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shiloh is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1969 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Shiloh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,278 babies since 1880, Shiloh is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,318 of their 2,621 babies (88%), again the most given.
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 Shiloh
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 Shiloh and names like it
- Compare Shiloh and ShiloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShiloh peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shiloh since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Shiloh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shiloh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shiloh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.