Sheilah

Girl · recorded 1924–2009

  • 2009last recorded
  • 1955best year

Most popular in 1955.

Last recorded in 2009. Fewer than five girls a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Sheilah.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1924

05110219241945196719882009

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 68 recorded years as a table
Sheilah, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19244
193411
193516
193615
193726
193814
193911
194024
194131
194221
194328
194425
194531
194629
194728
194835
194931
195034
195133
195237
195344
195445
1955102
195639
195742
195840
195942
196028
196116
196225
196326
196428
196521
196622
196725
196812
196923
197026
197119
197217
197316
197416
197521
197621
197714
197818
197911
19807
19817
19826
19836
19845
19858
19868
19876
19886
19893
19904
19915
19925
19935
19944
19965
19983
20003
20014
20074
20093

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Sheilah isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Sheilah

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2009
5
Rank in 2009
#17,294
How rare
1 in 367,422 girls
Since 1924
2,285

Sheilah was last recorded in 2009. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1955, at 102 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Sheilah doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.