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Seela

#7,437 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Sela

Seela has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #7,437 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Seela, 2025

1 in 221,000

Seela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seela: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seela means

Seela is a form of Sela.

Origin, language, and formation

Seela is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Seela is pronounced /ˈseːlɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 girls were recorded with the name Seela between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,437 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,953 in 2020 to #7,437 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,265 in 2015 to #7,437 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Seela?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,437
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seela was born before 2020 — so the typical Seela is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
113
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Seela rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,525
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,516
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,828
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (15)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,437
2025

Spellings of Seela

Seela is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 21.0% against Seela's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Seela around the world

Where Seela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Seela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,437
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,516
Best rank ever
#7,437
2025
Peak year
2025
15 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Seela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SeeleyBaelaNaelaTaelaVaelaHeelaMielaSeenaYselaZaelaStelaXaelaBrielaAnyelaHelaSeeratNyelaAzaelaSaelaRaelaCielaGaelaSeemaMirela

Sibling names for Seela

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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