Sheyla
Sheyla was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,350 among girls’ names; 4,241 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,190 Americans named Sheyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheyla?
#2,350 among girls’ names, 2025
Sheyla fell from #2,191 in 2015 to #2,350 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 48.5 per million.
309 babies in 2006, the peak
Sheyla peaked in 2006, when 309 girls were given it, #863 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,350 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,890 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,896 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,210 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,578 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,676 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,187 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,460 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,082 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,191 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,955 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,862 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,790 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,512 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,396 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 252 | #1,041 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 250 | #1,053 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 309 | #863 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,415 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,394 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 172 | #1,231 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 204 | #1,052 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 215 | #999 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,596 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,195 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,079 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,152 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,390 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,613 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,979 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,592 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,506 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,728 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,343 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,458 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,272 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,152 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,468 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,326 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,849 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,482 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,251 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,317 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,568 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,949 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheyla, and how old are they?
4,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,241 Americans ever recorded as Sheyla. The median Sheyla alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,225 people named Sheyla (4,215 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 50 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 442 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,140 |
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 Sheyla born?
The states with the most babies named Sheyla are New York, California and Texas, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,403 | 1.5× |
| California | 9 | #2,253 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,596 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,150 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,420 | 0.6× |
Where Sheyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sheyla is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 1.8 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 Sheyla 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 Sheyla?
Sheyla is a less common spelling of Shayla: SSA has recorded 4,241 Sheyla and 30,950 Shayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 419,780 babies since 1880, Sheyla is the sixth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 277 babies (28%), the second 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 Sheyla
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 Sheyla and names like it
- Compare Sheyla and ShaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSheyla peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Sheyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sheyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.