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Shahla

Girls' name

Possibly dark blue

Shahla has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Shahla, 2009

1 in 637,000

Shahla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shahla: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly dark blue

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shahla means

Shahla may mean “dark blue”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shahla is used in Arabic and Persian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃah.ˈlaːʔ/ for Shahla.

Origin, language, and formation

Shahla is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 99 girls were recorded with the name Shahla between 1969 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,224 in 1981.

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 Shahla?

Shahla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shahla 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 2009 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 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shahlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahla was born before 1983 — so the typical Shahla is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
53.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
99
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Shahla 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (11)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,224
1981

Spellings of Shahla

Shahla is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 43.8% against Shahla's 0.02%.

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.

Shahla around the world

Where Shahla 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
    1999–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shahla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,224
1981
Peak year
1981
11 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shahla

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

ShaiviShalvaShaielShailiShaymaShaiyaSharviShaiaShaktiShaanviShakthiShahadShaimaShaarviShadieShatonSharneShallaShadeeShalanShalayShawnyShalaeShanvi

Sibling names for Shahla

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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