Shiloah
#16,910 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shiloah has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #16,910 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Shiloah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Shiloah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shiloah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,910
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shiloah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiloah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shiloahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiloah was born before 2015 — so the typical Shiloah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 35.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Shiloah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +414
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,068
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 62.5%
- Peak was 2015 (8)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Shiloah
Shiloah is not the most common spelling — Shiloh is, with 59.7% against Shiloah's 0.11%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Shiloah around the world
Where Shiloah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shiloah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shiloah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shiloah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.