Shiloh
Top 1000
About Shiloh
Cool meets Born Again meets Brad and Angelina, who made Shiloh an instant star when they chose it for their daughter. While Shiloh has risen from obscurity thanks to its celebrity baby use, it hasn't become a star the way brother names Maddox and Pax have. It entered the Top 1000 in 2007, one year after the birth of Ms. Jolie-Pitt.
The town of Shiloh is mentioned several times in the Old Testament--it was where Joshua and the Israelites assembled to cast lots for the seven tribes and for many years it was where the Ark of the Covenant resided, becoming a place of pilgrimage. Shiloh is also the site in Tennessee of a major, bloody, Civil War battle.
Trivia tidbit: Shiloh is the name Angelina Jolie's parents had picked for their first child before her mother miscarried.
Pronounced SHY-lo.
As of October 2026, Shiloh ranked #281 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #260 in 2024, Nameberry popularity #330.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #604 | 482 | 269.8 |
| 2015 | #606 | 484 | 271.1 |
| 2016 | #605 | 498 | 281 |
| 2017 | #582 | 519 | 300.6 |
| 2018 | #560 | 557 | 327.4 |
| 2019 | #465 | 672 | 400.4 |
| 2020 | #453 | 683 | 422.5 |
| 2021 | #410 | 774 | 471.7 |
| 2022 | #344 | 935 | 570.1 |
| 2023 | #286 | 1,106 | 689.3 |
| 2024 | #260 | 1,216 | 750.5 |
| 2025 | #281 | 1,098 | 683.1 |
World rankings
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Shiloh on lists
Famous Shilohs
- Shiloh Hoganson
Canadian singer
- Shiloh Jade Pepin
late American girl born with rare condition known as "mermaid syndrome"
- Shiloh Walker
American romance novelist
- Shlomit "Shiloh" Malka
Israeli model
- Shiloh Nouvel Jolie
Pitt (b. 2006), daughter of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Shiloh in pop culture
- Shiloh McCullen
character on "The Fosters"
- Shiloh
film & book by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor about a dog named Shiloh
- Shiloh
ancient city mentioned in Hebrew Bible
- Shiloh
mentioned in Genesis 49:10, (reference to the coming of Christ)
- Shiloh Shepherd
a breed of dog
- "Shiloh
" song by David Berkeley
- The Battle of Shiloh
AKA The Battle of Pittsburg Landing (a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6,7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee)