Sheila
Sheila is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 97 births. Its best rank was 50th, in 1963, 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 970.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19628,777 births
- Best rank
- #50first in 1963
- Since 1907
- 238,706people given the name
The story in the numbers
238,706 girls have been named Sheila in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 8,777 births — 0.45% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 97 births in 2024, against 8,777 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 30 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sheila | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 33 | |
| 1910s | 388 | |
| 1920s | 1,853 | |
| 1930s | 10,958 | |
| 1940s | 35,740 | |
| 1950s | 70,174 | |
| 1960s | 74,075 | |
| 1970s | 26,510 | |
| 1980s | 9,541 | |
| 1990s | 4,646 | |
| 2000s | 2,868 | |
| 2010s | 1,348 | |
| 2020s | 572 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Sheila was the 52nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Sheila
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Paulapeak 1963
- Ronnapeak 1963
- Dorindapeak 1957
- Wendapeak 1956
- Sherrypeak 1962
- Gaylapeak 1954
- Karenpeak 1957
- Dalenepeak 1961
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.