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Sheyla

#2,350 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sheyla has been given to 4,241 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,350 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 309 recorded.

Babies named Sheyla, 2025

1 in 42,500

Sheyla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sheyla: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sheyla means

Sheyla is a given name.

The naming story behind Sheyla

Wikidata records Sheyla as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98839526, 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, 4,241 girls were recorded with the name Sheyla between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 309 in 2006; its best national rank was #863 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,578 in 2020 to #2,350 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,191 in 2015 to #2,350 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 Sheyla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,500
78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,350
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sheyla 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sheylas were born

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

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,241
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (1,985).

Is Sheyla 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
−460
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−159
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.2%
Peak was 2006 (309)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#863
2006

Spellings of Sheyla

Sheyla is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 27.9% against Sheyla's 0.50%.

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 Sheyla is used

Across 2016–2025, Sheyla was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 14,901 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 11,111
  3. 3Florida1 in 12,500
  4. 4California1 in 14,286
  5. 5Texas1 in 14,286
  6. 6Maryland1 in 25,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Sheyla around the world

Where Sheyla 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
    2003–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    2002–2022
    #6,395
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1996–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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 Sheyla

People whose public names include Sheyla, 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.

Sheyla in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sheyla. Linked forms have their own page here.

Sheila

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sheyla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,350
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 228
Best rank ever
#863
2006
Peak year
2006
309 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,241
Count in 2025
78

Names similar to Sheyla

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

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Names with a curve like Sheyla

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

LluviaCitlaliSamariaJanayaAniaJailynCiannaIyanaIyannaRyleyYamiletJaya

Sibling names for Sheyla

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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