Meaning not yet researched.
Shilo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 142 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,343 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 83% of babies named Shilo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,343 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Shilo: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 142 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,343 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 142 (2025).
In 2025, 142 US boys were named Shilo, making it the 1,343rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 328 places from #1,671 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 101 boys named Shilo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,343, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 142. For comparison, it was #6,620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Shilo, making it the 4,652nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 359 places from #5,011 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 27 girls named Shilo in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,345, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #6,429 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shilo in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 47 babies. In all, 3,123 US babies have been given the name, 59% of them girls and 41% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 818 babies named Shilo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 490 US boys were named Shilo; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,029 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shilo ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #795 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Shiloh (24,531 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zhylo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zhylo (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shilo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #795 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #860 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #867 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #981 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,125 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,201 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,238 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,455 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,960 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,652 | 142 | #1,343 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,011 | 101 | #1,671 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,635 | 92 | #1,771 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,778 | 42 | #2,993 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,647 | 27 | #3,988 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,055 | 23 | #4,401 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,537 | 16 | #5,762 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,130 | 16 | #5,738 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,233 | 15 | #6,026 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,375 | 16 | #5,758 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,429 | 13 | #6,620 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,672 | 20 | #4,839 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,992 | 8 | #9,523 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,233 | 8 | #9,570 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,555 | 12 | #6,938 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,613 | 21 | #4,654 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,210 | 19 | #5,072 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,636 | 20 | #4,870 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,554 | 14 | #6,212 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,684 | 10 | #7,906 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,761 | 8 | #8,966 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,187 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,847 | 16 | #5,007 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,096 | 6 | #10,466 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,275 | 12 | #5,958 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,760 | 17 | #4,536 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,064 | 13 | #5,272 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,129 | 8 | #7,440 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,880 | 22 | #3,332 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,036 | 17 | #3,991 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,492 | 27 | #2,752 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,433 | 23 | #3,093 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,342 | 16 | #3,986 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,402 | 16 | #3,893 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,928 | 21 | #3,094 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,702 | 10 | #5,317 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,659 | 16 | #3,595 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,468 | 14 | #3,678 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,508 | 19 | #2,819 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,896 | 16 | #3,109 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,319 | 14 | #3,365 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,774 | 12 | #3,654 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,233 | 13 | #3,389 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,217 | 18 | #2,691 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,112 | 21 | #2,404 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,640 | 20 | #2,521 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,567 | 39 | #1,526 |
| 1978 | 89 | #1,345 | 23 | #2,120 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,634 | 20 | #2,343 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,634 | 28 | #1,817 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,474 | 29 | #1,750 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,460 | 31 | #1,613 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,706 | 23 | #1,922 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,213 | 19 | #2,146 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,417 | 11 | #3,118 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,152 | 9 | #3,486 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).