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Shyla vs Shylo

American parents have registered 8,026 Shylas since 1880, against 897 Shylos. Shyla is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyla against Shylo, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyla Shylo

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

Shyla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1942 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1970, when Shyla had 13 and Shylo had 7.

Side by side

  Shyla Shylo
Total US births 8,026897
Most in one year 36540
Babies in 2025 7940
Estimated living today 7,900880
Median age today 2021
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 797th girls5,013th girls
Rank in 2025 2,298th7,885th
First recorded 19421970
Girls / boys 8,026 / 0674 / 223

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Shyla Shylo
England and Wales 58917

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: Shyla and Shylo.