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Shylah vs Shyloh

American parents have registered 1,779 Shylahs since 1880, against 891 Shylohs. But in 2025 it was Shyloh that was commoner, 48 babies to 23.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shylah against Shyloh, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shylah Shyloh

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

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Shylah for 42 years and Shyloh for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Shylah Shyloh
Total US births 1,779891
Most in one year 11473
Babies in 2025 2348
Estimated living today 1,800880
Median age today 1610
Peak year 20072024
Best rank 1,848th girls3,395th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th4,987th
First recorded 19761981
Girls / boys 1,779 / 0664 / 227

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 Shylahs alive today are over 16; half the Shylohs are over 10. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Shylah Shyloh
England and Wales 15119

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: Shylah and Shyloh.