Sheily
Sheily was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,969 among girls’ names; 645 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheily by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheily?
#4,969 among girls’ names, 2025
Sheily rose from #6,000 in 2015 to #4,969 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 16.8 per million.
43 babies in 2023, the peak
Sheily peaked in 2023, when 43 girls were given it, #3,634 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,969 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,101 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,634 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,777 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,641 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,641 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,974 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,068 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,254 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,188 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,000 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,640 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,985 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,152 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,523 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,950 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,865 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,859 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,077 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,151 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,232 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,353 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,015 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,089 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,780 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,609 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,510 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,218 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,224 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,384 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheily a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheily has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheily: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheily, and how old are they?
An estimated 640 Americans named Sheily and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 578 people named Sheily (571 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 415,923 babies since 1880, Sheily is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 204 babies (13%), 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 Sheily
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 Sheily and names like it
- Compare Sheily and SheilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSheily peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheily since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Sheily.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sheily alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.