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

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Peak · girls
1978 · 89 births
Debut · girls
38 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,853
since 1970

Shilo over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,341, 1978girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,54630#1,341142
2024#4,89327#1,661101
2023#6,40918#1,76592
2022#5,63822#2,96242
2021#6,41418#3,91227
2020#5,85020#4,27523
2019#8,13813#5,55516
2018#5,00726#5,54016
2017#7,84014#5,78815
2016#6,18620#5,55516
2015#6,23620#6,32413
2014#6,45119#4,70220
2013#6,72918#8,7898
2012#5,11427#8,8648
2011#4,46632#6,57812
2010#3,57244#4,51721
2009#5,09728#4,92219
2008#4,55033#4,71420
2007#4,47533#5,90114
2006#5,54524#7,42710
2005#5,60022#8,2998
2004#8,71612#8,1438
2003#6,57617#4,81516
2002#5,89719#9,3926
2001#6,06718#5,66712
2000#6,48716#4,38917
1999#3,97029#5,03513
1998#4,02328#6,8438
1997#3,81529#3,26122
1996#3,94227#3,83017
1995#4,34823#2,68527
1994#3,37233#3,03023
1993#3,29034#3,81916
1992#3,34333#3,74816
1991#3,81727#2,98921
1990#3,62329#4,99310
1989#3,56628#3,44616
1988#3,39328#3,52314
1987#3,42426#2,72519
1986#2,84533#3,00516
1985#3,24627#3,21614
1984#2,73033#3,45912
1983#2,19844#3,23013
1982#2,18546#2,59618
1981#2,08549#2,33821
1980#1,62471#2,44420
1979#1,55574#1,51039
1978#1,34189#2,06823
1977#1,62165#2,27020
1976#1,61961#1,78128
1975#1,45970#1,70429
1974#1,44869#1,58231
1973#1,69053#1,87123
1972#2,17335#2,08019
1971#2,37532#2,97311
1970#2,12038#3,2829
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First appearance
1970

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
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 1978 at #1,341 (89 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,212
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 31.6% of all girls named Shilo (586) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2019
  • Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s586#1,341 (1978)#1,740
1980s385#1,624 (1980)#2,730
1990s292#3,290 (1993)#3,754
2000s222#4,475 (2007)#5,901
2010s233#3,572 (2010)#5,974
2020s135#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

girls
#2,198
44 births · 1 in 37,968 girls
boys
#3,230
13 births · 1 in 137,890 boys

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #2,198Shilo44

Top boys' names in 1983

  1. #1Michael68,004
  2. #2Christopher59,324
  3. #3Matthew50,209
  4. #4David39,201
  5. #5Joshua36,687
  6. #6James36,342
  7. #7Jason35,113
  8. #8Daniel34,748
  9. #9John33,154
  10. #10Robert32,745
  11. #3,230Shilo13
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).

Ranked beside Shilo
  1. #2,156Tyeshia45
  2. #2,156Willie45
  3. #2,156Yomaira45
  4. #2,198Shilo44
  5. #2,198Allegra44
  6. #2,198Allie44
  7. #2,198Ambrosia44
  8. #2,236Abbi43
  9. #2,236Alfreda43
  10. #2,236Alyce43

Tied with 37 names at #2,198; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. 6,772Ciji#7,469#697
  2. 6,751Kirby#7,469#718
  3. 2,656Dwan#3,530#874
  4. 1,888Mallory#2,220#332
  5. 987Marquita#1,099#112
Fallers
  1. 656Syreeta#717#1,373
  2. 572Jenilee#817#1,389
  3. 538Tenika#947#1,485
  4. 396Toccara#541#937
  5. 333Venus#950#1,283

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).

Ranked beside Shilo
  1. #3,071Yeng14
  2. #3,071Zak14
  3. #3,071Zebadiah14
  4. #3,230Shilo13
  5. #3,230Abdon13
  6. #3,230Akeen13
  7. #3,230Alcides13
  8. #3,411Abigail12
  9. #3,411Abrahan12
  10. #3,411Adrienne12

Tied with 180 names at #3,230; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. 2,260Remington#3,108#848
  2. 2,159Trumaine#3,108#949
  3. 1,157Akeem#1,774#617
  4. 738Jacoby#1,654#916
  5. 655Deven#1,622#967
Fallers
  1. 284Marcello#969#1,253
  2. 275Schuyler#845#1,120
  3. 273Jessy#917#1,190
  4. 258Kennith#981#1,239
  5. 220Jarrad#933#1,153

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983