Shyloh
Shyloh is given to both girls and boys: 26 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,080 among girls’ names and #4,680 among boys’, #5,813 among all names counting both); 891 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shyloh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shyloh?
#5,080 among girls’ names, 2025
Shyloh rose from #6,944 in 2015 to #5,080 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 16.2 per million.
73 babies in 2024, the peak
Shyloh peaked in 2024, when 73 babies were given it (46 girls, #3,449 among girls’ names). The 48 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,080 | 22 | #4,680 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,449 | 27 | #4,058 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,825 | 21 | #4,857 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,955 | 13 | #6,767 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,591 | 14 | #6,292 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,177 | 15 | #5,931 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,147 | 17 | #5,520 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,133 | 9 | #8,711 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,791 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,015 | 10 | #8,069 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,944 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,966 | 8 | #9,489 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,458 | 5 | #13,757 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,111 | 9 | #8,762 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,699 | 8 | #9,464 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,952 | 9 | #8,682 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,662 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,746 | 11 | #7,618 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,554 | 7 | #10,723 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,511 | 5 | #13,709 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,152 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,814 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,629 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,034 | 6 | #10,466 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,998 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,109 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,495 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,170 | 6 | #9,467 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,912 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,387 | 5 | #10,096 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,611 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,453 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,119 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,547 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,923 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,932 | 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 Shyloh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 891 Americans recorded as Shyloh, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shyloh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shyloh, and how old are they?
An estimated 883 Americans named Shyloh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 618 people named Shyloh (477 women and girls, 141 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Shyloh?
Shyloh is a less common spelling of Shiloh: SSA has recorded 891 Shyloh and 24,531 Shiloh since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,975 babies since 1880, Shyloh is the seventh most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 2,706 babies (1.8%), the fourth 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 Shyloh
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 Shyloh and names like it
- Compare Shyloh and ShilohBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShyloh peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shyloh since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Shyloh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shyloh alive today were born 2013-2025.
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