Shilpa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shilpa

The Social Security Administration has registered 573 babies named Shilpa between 1968 and 2010, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shilpa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 30 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shilpa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shilpa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Shilpa in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shilpa 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 573 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.