Sheilah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sheilah

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,285 babies named Sheilah between 1924 and 2009, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sheilah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 199 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sheilah performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 884 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Sheilah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 97 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sheilah in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sheilah 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 2,285 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.