Shaela
Shaela was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,781 among girls’ names; 1,124 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Shaela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaela?
#10,781 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaela fell from #9,403 in 2015 to #10,781 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.6 per million.
47 babies in 2000, the peak
Shaela peaked in 2000, when 47 girls were given it, #3,008 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,781 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,237 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,575 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,977 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,273 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,592 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,579 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,403 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,942 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,506 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 17 | #7,408 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,072 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,824 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,354 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,991 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,458 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,779 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,491 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,803 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,935 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,053 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,298 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,008 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,921 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,957 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,765 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,945 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,065 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,424 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,400 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,960 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,077 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,131 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,867 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,016 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,099 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,159 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,035 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,687 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,161 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,346 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,222 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,236 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,796 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,301 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,551 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,884 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,511 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,964 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,804 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,641 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaela, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,124 Americans ever recorded as Shaela. The median Shaela alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 936 people named Shaela (933 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,077 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 392 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 544 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 101 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,758 babies since 1880, Shaela is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 147 babies (6.1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaela
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaela and names like it
- Compare Shaela and ShaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaela peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaela since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Shaela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.