Humanverse

Shyheim vs Shylo

American parents have registered 974 Shyheims since 1880, against 897 Shylos. But in 2025 it was Shylo that was commoner, 40 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shyheim against Shylo, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shyheim 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

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Shylo for 40 years and Shyheim for 16 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Shyheim Shylo
Total US births 974897
Most in one year 16840
Babies in 2025 840
Estimated living today 950880
Median age today 2721
Peak year 19942008
Best rank 817th boys5,013th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th7,885th
First recorded 19941970
Girls / boys 0 / 974674 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Shyheims alive today are over 27; half the Shylos are over 21. That is 6 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 Shyheim Shylo
England and Wales 3017

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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