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Shila

Girls' name

Conduct, disposition, character

Shila has been given to 1,080 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1980, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Shila, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shila: meaning, origin, and history

Conduct, disposition, character

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shila means

Shila means “conduct, disposition, character”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shila is used in Marathi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,080 girls were recorded with the name Shila between 1941 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1980; its best national rank was #2,870 in 1975.

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 Shila?

Shila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shila 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shila was born before 1988 — so the typical Shila is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,056
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Shila 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (28)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,870
1975

Spellings of Shila

Shila is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 24.9% against Shila's 0.11%.

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 Shila is used

Across 1910–2025, Shila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 444,799 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Shila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shila around the world

Where Shila 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
    2005–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007

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

Shila 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
#2,870
1975
Peak year
1980
28 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,080
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shila

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

ShiloShiaShilahShirinShifaShifraAmilaShineCailaZailaShirlNeilaAvilaDailaShiriMailaAkilaShiannaShiraShizaShireenMeilaShirelZoila

Sibling names for Shila

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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