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Shiloh vs Shivangi

American parents have registered 24,531 Shilohs since 1880, against 149 Shivangis. Shiloh is still ahead, with 2,318 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shiloh against Shivangi, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shiloh Shivangi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Shiloh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Shiloh had 123 and Shivangi had 15.

Side by side

  Shiloh Shivangi
Total US births 24,531149
Most in one year 2,31815
Babies in 2025 2,318under 5
Estimated living today 24,000150
Median age today 726
Peak year 20241992
Best rank 260th girls6,008th girls
Rank in 2025 281stunranked
First recorded 19691992
Girls / boys 15,117 / 9,414149 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shivangis alive today are over 26; half the Shilohs are over 7. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Shiloh Shivangi
England and Wales 1,49519

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shiloh and Shivangi.