Shilo
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #1,341 for boys in 2025, 142 births
Given to girls 59.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 89 births
- Debut · girls
- 38 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,853since 1970
Shilo over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #1,341 | 142 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #1,661 | 101 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,765 | 92 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #2,962 | 42 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #3,572 | 44 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 | #3,030 | 23 |
| 1993 | #3,290 | 34 | #3,819 | 16 |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #3,393 | 28 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #3,246 | 27 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #1,624 | 71 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #1,555 | 74 | #1,510 | 39 |
| 1978 | #1,341 | 89 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #1,621 | 65 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #1,619 | 61 | #1,781 | 28 |
| 1975 | #1,459 | 70 | #1,704 | 29 |
| 1974 | #1,448 | 69 | #1,582 | 31 |
| 1973 | #1,690 | 53 | #1,871 | 23 |
| 1972 | #2,173 | 35 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #2,375 | 32 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #2,120 | 38 | #3,282 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shilo! It came in at #2,120, and was given to 38 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 18 girls a year got the name.
Where Shilo is popular in 1970
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#956 · 1 in 14,816
- California#1,553 · 1 in 23,433
Best ever in a state: #329 in Utah, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #956 | 5 | 1 in 14,816 |
| California | #1,553 | 7 | 1 in 23,433 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shilo
- 347 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #4,546)
- 1,304 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #4,546)
- 1,690 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #4,546)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1978 at #1,341 (89 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,212 girls born in 1978 were named Shilo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.6% of all girls named Shilo (586) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 586 | #1,341 (1978) | #1,740 |
| 1980s | 385 | #1,624 (1980) | #2,730 |
| 1990s | 292 | #3,290 (1993) | #3,754 |
| 2000s | 222 | #4,475 (2007) | #5,901 |
| 2010s | 233 | #3,572 (2010) | #5,974 |
| 2020s | 135 | #4,546 (2025) | #5,625 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shilo in 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 46,004 of them was named Shilo, which outranked 77.3% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,081Tobie39
- #2,081Vita39
- #2,081Wynette39
- #2,120Shilo38
- #2,120Adelaida38
- #2,120Alida38
- #2,120Anisa38
- #2,160Alane37
- #2,160America37
- #2,160Anabel37
Tied with 39 names at #2,120; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 206,470 of them was named Shilo, which outranked 39.6% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,071Winthrop10
- #3,071Yves10
- #3,071Zvi10
- #3,282Shilo9
- #3,282Adron9
- #3,282Alastair9
- #3,282Alcindor9
- #3,521Abie8
- #3,521Adams8
- #3,521Adriel8
Tied with 238 names at #3,282; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.