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Shyla

#2,322 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Sheila

Shyla has been given to 8,026 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #2,322 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 365 recorded.

Babies named Shyla, 2025

1 in 42,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shyla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sheila

coinages

What Shyla means

Shyla is a variant of Sheila.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shyla → Sheila → Síle → Caecilia. The family’s meaning is “blind”, recorded in Latin with the source elements caecus.

Origin, language, and formation

Shyla is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Shyla is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sheila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,026 girls were recorded with the name Shyla between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 365 in 2008; its best national rank was #797 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,368 in 2020 to #2,322 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,452 in 2015 to #2,322 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shyla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,322
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shyla 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 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shyla was born before 2005 — so the typical Shyla is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,007
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (2,581).

Is Shyla 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
−456
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−954
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−870
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.6%
Peak was 2008 (365)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#797
2008

Spellings of Shyla

Shyla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 25.3% against Shyla's 0.59%.

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 Shyla is used

Across 2016–2025, Shyla was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 16,507 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

210 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 10,000
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 20,000

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.

Shyla around the world

Where Shyla 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
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #328
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shyla

People whose public names include Shyla, 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.

Shyla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,322
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 954
Best rank ever
#797
2008
Peak year
2008
365 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,026
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Shyla

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

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Names with a curve like Shyla

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

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Sibling names for Shyla

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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