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Shula

Girls' name

Peace, through Shulamith

Shula has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2019, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Shula, 2019

1 in 579,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shula: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Shulamith

Hebrew

What Shula means

Shula belongs to the name family reached through Shula → Shulamith → Salome. Its meaning is “peace”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Clipping of Shulamith, Shulamit, Shulamis, diminutives of Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית (shulamít).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Shula (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Shula is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shula comes through Hebrew שולמית.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shulamith and Salome.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Shula between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2019; its best national rank was #15,301 in 2019.

How common is Shula?

Shula had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shula 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shula. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shulas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shula was born before 2019 — so the typical Shula is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Shula 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 2019 (6)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,301
2019

Spellings of Shula

Shula is not the most common spelling — Paula is, with 30.6% against Shula's <0.01%.

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.

Shula around the world

Where Shula 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
    1996–2003
    #3,099
    in 2003

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

Shula 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
—
Best rank ever
#15,301
2019
Peak year
2019
6 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shula

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

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Sibling names for Shula

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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