Shilah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHY-la
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Shilah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
Where does Shilah come from?
Hebrew: probably a variant of Shiloh
More on Wiktionary.
Is Shilah a girl's or a boy's name?
Shilah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shilah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,916th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Shilah, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 64 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.
2025 had more girls named Shilah than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Shilah in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 122 girls in the US were given Shilah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,478, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.
Shilah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,251 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,567 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,744 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,297 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,016 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,822 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,264 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,317 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,486 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,713 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,951 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,815 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,526 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,440 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,645 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,544 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,443 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,285 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,207 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,570 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,326 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,384 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,212 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,213 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
Names like Shilah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Aaliyah, Summer, Salem, Safa, Farah, Selah, Zainab, Salma, Farrah, Samira, Taliyah
Other spellings of Shilah
Names related to Shilah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shilah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shilah, updated 20 October 2026.