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.
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 1983
Top girls' names in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
girls
1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 37,968 of them was named Shilo, which outranked 81.8% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,156Tyeshia45
- #2,156Willie45
- #2,156Yomaira45
- #2,198Shilo44
- #2,198Allegra44
- #2,198Allie44
- #2,198Ambrosia44
- #2,236Abbi43
- #2,236Alfreda43
- #2,236Alyce43
Tied with 37 names at #2,198; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 137,890 of them was named Shilo, which outranked 56.0% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,071Yeng14
- #3,071Zak14
- #3,071Zebadiah14
- #3,230Shilo13
- #3,230Abdon13
- #3,230Akeen13
- #3,230Alcides13
- #3,411Abigail12
- #3,411Abrahan12
- #3,411Adrienne12
Tied with 180 names at #3,230; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.