Entry № 9569 · Hebrew origin

Shiloh Shiloh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHY-loh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Tranquil one (Jolie-Pitt's daughter + biblical place)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "tranquil one (jolie-pitt's daughter + biblical place)".

Shiloh is from the Hebrew Shīlōh — meaning tranquil one or his gift — also the ancient holy city in Israel where the Ark of the Covenant rested for nearly 369 years before the Temple in Jerusalem was built. A top-500 US unisex baby name since 2007. 1000 BCE). Shiloh Fernandez (born 1985) — male; American actor. The name has the rare distinction of being equally popular for both sexes in modern US naming.

Tranquil one (Jolie-Pitt's daughter + biblical place) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

שִׁילֹה
Transliteration
Shīlōh
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃaɪ.loʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shiloh stands.

Shiloh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shilohs before her.

Real people
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
Daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
born 2006
In fiction
Shiloh
Biblical place.

Names connected to Shiloh.

The number behind Shiloh.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shiloh reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.