Sheelagh
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sheelagh has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1962, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Sheelagh, 1962
1 in 576,000
Sheelagh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sheelagh?
Sheelagh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1962
- 1 in 576,000
- 7 of 4,035,213 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 281,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1962
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 399,572 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sheelagh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1962 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 399,572 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheelagh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheelaghs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheelagh was born before 1962 — so the typical Sheelagh is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Sheelagh 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 1962 (7)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Sheelagh
Sheelagh is not the most common spelling — Sheilah is, with 57.3% against Sheelagh's 0.18%.
Sheelagh around the world
Where Sheelagh 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.
- Scotland1974–1976#516in 1976
- Ireland1964–1987#446in 1987
- South Australia1949–1961#665in 1961
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sheelagh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sheelagh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sheelagh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.