Shila
Shila was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,080 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Shila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 23 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shila?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,261, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1980, the peak
Shila peaked in 1980, when 28 girls were given it, #3,124 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,261 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,160 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,295 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,608 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,136 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,288 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,830 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,522 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,153 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,139 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27 | #5,221 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,027 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,409 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,678 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,528 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,095 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,720 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,413 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,749 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,261 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,664 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,183 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,472 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,637 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,044 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,486 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,209 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,906 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,824 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,972 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,243 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,248 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,671 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,449 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,624 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,965 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,130 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,928 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,158 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,133 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,124 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,019 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,178 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,589 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,082 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,870 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,901 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,321 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,864 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,249 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #4,013 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,000 | 5.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,676 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,807 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,223 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,949 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,801 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,491 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,198 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,291 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,076 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,860 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,761 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,681 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,604 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,592 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,009 | 2.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,993 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shila, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,080 Americans ever recorded as Shila. The median Shila alive today is 37 years old; half are between 23 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,666 people named Shila (1,659 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,034 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 249 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 329 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 59 |
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).
How common is the spelling Shila?
Shila is a less common spelling of Shyla: SSA has recorded 1,080 Shila and 8,026 Shyla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,761 babies since 1880, Shila is the sixth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,652 babies recorded by SSA was a Shila (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shila
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 Shila and names like it
- Compare Shila and ShylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShila peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shila since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Shila.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shila alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.