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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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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.
Where Shilo is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Shilo in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Shilo
Momentum · girls
Rising
- 1,304 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #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
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.
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