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Shaila

#5,210 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shaila has been given to 3,260 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #5,210 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 241 recorded.

Babies named Shaila, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaila: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaila means

Shaila is a given name.

The naming story behind Shaila

Wikidata records Shaila as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q63967470, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,260 girls were recorded with the name Shaila between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 241 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,041 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,769 in 2020 to #5,210 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,497 in 2015 to #5,210 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.

How common is Shaila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,210
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaila 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shailas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaila was born before 2007 — so the typical Shaila is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (1,077).

Is Shaila 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
+721
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,441
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,713
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.4%
Peak was 2010 (241)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,041
2010

Spellings of Shaila

Shaila is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 34.6% against Shaila's 0.47%.

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.

Where Shaila is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 69,620 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shaila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaila around the world

Where Shaila 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
  • France
    1997–2021
    #6,212
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1995–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1997–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shaila

People whose public names include Shaila, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shaila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,210
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,441
Best rank ever
#1,041
2010
Peak year
2010
241 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,260
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Shaila

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

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Names with a curve like Shaila

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaila, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shaila

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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