Shaila
Shaila was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,210 among girls’ names; 3,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,210 Americans named Shaila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaila?
#5,210 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaila fell from #2,497 in 2015 to #5,210 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 15.6 per million.
241 babies in 2010, the peak
Shaila peaked in 2010, when 241 girls were given it, #1,041 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,210 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,931 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,724 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,776 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,588 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,769 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,711 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,487 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,136 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,664 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,497 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,078 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,658 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,358 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,408 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,041 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,570 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 218 | #1,179 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 201 | #1,236 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,612 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,199 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,472 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,515 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,699 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,559 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,205 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,248 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,178 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,094 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,582 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,669 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,611 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,281 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,477 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,506 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,144 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,242 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,436 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,392 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,287 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,747 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,303 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,179 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,579 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,950 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,790 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,139 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,132 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,438 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,447 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,731 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,430 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,269 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaila, and how old are they?
3,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,260 Americans ever recorded as Shaila. The median Shaila alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 3,176 people named Shaila (3,168 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 158 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 547 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 669 |
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).
Where are babies named Shaila born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,465 | 1.5× |
Where Shaila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaila is most over-represented in California: since 1960 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shaila?
Shaila is a less common spelling of Shayla: SSA has recorded 3,260 Shaila and 30,950 Shayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,820 babies since 1880, Shaila is the second most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 147 babies (17%), again the second most given.
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 Shaila
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 Shaila and names like it
- Compare Shaila and ShaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShaila peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaila since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Shaila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.