Shamila — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shamila

The Social Security Administration has registered 133 babies named Shamila between 1978 and 2016, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shamila currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamila performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shamila shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shamila in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamila 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 133 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.