Shylo
Shylo is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 27 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,283 among girls’ names and #4,025 among boys’, #6,609 among all names counting both); 897 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shylo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shylo?
#8,283 among girls’ names, 2025
Shylo rose from #8,369 in 2015 to #8,283 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 8.1 per million.
40 babies in 2025, the peak
Shylo peaked in 2025, when 40 babies were given it (13 girls, #8,283 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 15 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,283 | 27 | #4,025 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,540 | 24 | #4,413 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,995 | 23 | #4,591 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,970 | 14 | #6,419 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,971 | 9 | #8,725 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,987 | 8 | #9,424 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,605 | 5 | #13,834 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,454 | 7 | #10,573 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,902 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,552 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,369 | 5 | #13,745 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,455 | 5 | #13,754 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,989 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,748 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,304 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,354 | 5 | #13,946 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,821 | 7 | #10,798 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,120 | 5 | #14,296 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,941 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,810 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,291 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,802 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,324 | 6 | #10,670 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,974 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,898 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,755 | 6 | #10,159 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,442 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,665 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,443 | 9 | #6,531 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,685 | 5 | #10,318 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,649 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,487 | 9 | #6,275 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,211 | 5 | #9,943 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,252 | 8 | #6,600 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,366 | 7 | #7,157 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,238 | 5 | #9,302 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,109 | 6 | #7,766 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,662 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,104 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,546 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,881 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,044 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,861 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,383 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,308 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,709 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,203 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,927 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,401 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,518 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,843 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,003 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,565 | 5 | #5,771 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,416 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,175 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,957 | under 5 |
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 Shylo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 897 Americans recorded as Shylo, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shylo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shylo, and how old are they?
An estimated 878 Americans named Shylo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 637 people named Shylo (481 women and girls, 156 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 706 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Shylo?
Shylo is a less common spelling of Shiloh: SSA has recorded 897 Shylo and 24,531 Shiloh since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,138 babies since 1880, Shylo is the sixth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 2,686 babies (1.5%), the fifth 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 Shylo
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 Shylo and names like it
- Compare Shylo and ShilohBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShylo peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shylo since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shylo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shylo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.