Silo

#8,151 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Silo has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 2021. In 2025 it ranked #8,151 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Silo, 2025

1 in 332,000

Silo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Silo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,151
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silo was born before 2023 — so the typical Silo is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
50
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Silo 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
+1,582
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2023 (15)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,170
2023

Spellings of Silo

Silo is not the most common spelling — Bill is, with 26.5% against Silo's <0.01%.

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.

Where Silo is used

Across 1910–2025, Silo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Silo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Silo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,151
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,170
2023
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Silo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Silo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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