Shala — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shala

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,061 babies named Shala between 1947 and 2012, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shala currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 89 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shala performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 670 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shala shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 105 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shala in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shala in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,061 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.