Shylo
Masculine · “Hebrew place name”
Shylo is given to both — 223 boys and 674 girls since 1880. See Shylo as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Shylo entered the US charts in 1973 and is at its record high, #3949 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Shylo?
Shylo first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Shylo is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 200 people named Shylo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shylo most popular?
Shylo peaked in 2025, reaching #3949 nationally. Today it ranks #3949, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Shylo appears on this list:
Where it comes from
From Shiloh to Shylo
The story of Shylo
The name reaches American children by way of a battlefield. Shiloh Meeting House in Hardin County, Tennessee was a log church named, as country churches often were, after a biblical site. On 6 and 7 April 1862 roughly twenty-four thousand men were killed or wounded around it. The battle put the word into every newspaper in the country, and afterwards it was used as a given name in the South in the way Verdun and Ypres later were in France. A second wave came from books and film: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's novel Shiloh won the Newbery Medal in 1992 and was filmed in 1996. The spelling Shylo, however, belongs to neither wave. It peaks in 1978, between them, in the period when American parents were systematically replacing i with y in short names.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew place name, meaning unresolved
The Hebrew Shiloh appears in Joshua, Judges and Samuel as a settlement, and once in Genesis 49:10 in a phrase that has been argued over for two thousand years: until Shiloh comes. Whether that word is a place, a title, a person, or a corrupted text is genuinely unsettled, and both Jewish and Christian commentators have read it every way. The common gloss tranquil or place of rest is a guess built on a possible link to the root sh-l-h, to be at ease. The spelling Shylo replaces the Hebrew i with y and drops the silent h.
How the name formed
- Shiloh
- Shylo
Related forms: Shiloh · Shiloh
Pronouncing Shylo
SHY-lo
Two syllables, stress on the first, both vowels long. The respelled form is unambiguous where Shiloh can be read as SHY-lo or shy-LOH.
Nicknames for Shylo
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 202527 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3949reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%27 in 2025, from 24
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shylo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shiloh in Hebrew — transliteration
- Shiloh in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Shylos among us
people named Shylo are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was named Shylo
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Shylo
- #3949
- Shylo on the 2025 chart
- #247
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Shylo went to 27 boys in 2025, but Shiloh, Shilo and Shyloh are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,411, which makes it the 247th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,702 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 1,211 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 63,262 for Shylo itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Philipe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shylo's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Philipe climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Philipe's path sketches the road Shylo is walking now.
Shylo sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Shylo is headed
Shylo is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 89% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Shylo beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shylo in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
Nobody names a baby alone.
Put Shylo to the vote.
Add it to a family vote or a couple’s swipe deck — the other person gets one card, a simple answer and room to say why. No app, no account for them.
Only the people you invite can see your list.
Already decided on Shylo? Hide it among decoys and let them guess.
What they receive
Someone added a name to your list
Shylo
Masculine · #3949 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Shylos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Shylo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Shylo?
- Shylo is one of 4 recorded spellings. Shiloh is the more common one — 1,220 births in 2025 against 27 for Shylo.
- How popular is the name Shylo in 2025?
- Shylo ranks #3949 among US boy names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shylo?
- About 1 in every 63,262 US boys born in 2025 was named Shylo — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shylo with classmates?
- Shylo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Shylo
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Stewart#3949 · Tillman#3949 · Ashley#3949 · Alfonzo#3949 · Blane#3949 · Brayton#3949 · Omega#3949 · Rufus#3949
Looking for what else is popular rather than what resembles Shylo? See the current top 100.
Choosing between Shylo and another name?
See them side by side — full stats, history and a gentle verdict.
Compare side by sideIn a hurry? Just pick a winner — one tap, no sign-up, and you see how everyone else voted.
Weighing a whole shortlist? Add the rest in the builder, or settle it with a bracket.
Cast your vote
Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
No advertising trackers and no data sellinghow we handle your dataindependent and founder-run, about Name Battle