Shyloh
Feminine
Shyloh is given to both — 664 girls and 227 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Shiloh was the place where the tabernacle stood before there was a temple: the assembly site of the Israelite tribes in the hill country, and the setting of the story of Hannah and her son. The name is also one of the great puzzles of biblical translation, because of a single obscure line in Genesis.
How old is the name Shyloh?
Shyloh first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Shyloh is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Shyloh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shyloh most popular?
Shyloh peaked in 2024, reaching #3395 nationally. Today it ranks #4987, 1,592 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Shiloh to Shyloh
The story of Shyloh
Shiloh was the religious center of the tribes before Jerusalem, and archaeology has found a destruction layer there consistent with the biblical account of its fall. Its name returned to American ears through a Tennessee battlefield of 1862, named for a small church, one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War at the time. The name came into use for children in the late twentieth century, for both sexes, and the y spelling belongs to the last two decades.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Not established. Tranquil or peaceful is often printed and rests on a doubtful root. The word also appears in a line of Genesis that translators have fought over for two thousand years, read variously as a place, a person, and the phrase to whom it belongs. The place name itself has no agreed etymology.
How the name formed
- Shiloh
- Shyloh
Related forms: שילה · Shiloh
Pronouncing Shyloh
SHY-loh
Two syllables, stress in front. Hebrew says shee-LOH with the weight at the end, which is a noticeably different rhythm.
Nicknames for Shyloh
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
- 1981
- Most girls named
- 202446 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3395reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −43.5%26 in 2025, from 46
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.
Shyloh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- שילה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Shiloh in English — spelling variant
Shylohs among us
people named Shyloh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 61,818 born in 2025 was named Shyloh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Shyloh
- #4987
- Shyloh on the 2025 chart
- #275
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Shyloh went to 26 girls in 2025, but Shiloh, Shilo and Shylo are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,167, which makes it the 275th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,712 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 1,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,818 for Shyloh 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 Danitza test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shyloh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danitza climbed just as high around 2002, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danitza's path sketches the road Shyloh is walking now.
Shyloh 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 Shyloh is headed
Shyloh looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 38% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. 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.
Shyloh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shyloh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It names a real archaeological site with a documented history.
- It works for a child of either sex, which some families want.
- The sound is soft and easy, and nobody stumbles over it.
- Shiloh is the standard spelling and will be written instead by most people.
- The clipped form Shy is an English word that a child may not want applied to them.
- Its meaning is genuinely unknown, so the tranquil reading found online is a guess.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shylohs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Shyloh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Shyloh?
- Shyloh is one of 4 recorded spellings. Shiloh is the more common one — 1,098 births in 2025 against 26 for Shyloh.
- How popular is the name Shyloh in 2025?
- Shyloh ranks #4987 among US girl names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shyloh?
- About 1 in every 61,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Shyloh — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shyloh with classmates?
- Shyloh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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