Shiela
Shiela is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 714th, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1970216 births
- Best rank
- #714in 1970
- Since 1908
- 4,408people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,408 girls have been named Shiela in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 216 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 216 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shiela | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 7 | |
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 50 | |
| 1930s | 160 | |
| 1940s | 535 | |
| 1950s | 940 | |
| 1960s | 1,355 | |
| 1970s | 906 | |
| 1980s | 300 | |
| 1990s | 135 | |
| 2000s | 15 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Shiela was the 714th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Shiela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Karinpeak 1970
- Donnettepeak 1963
- Lynnettepeak 1964
- Janenepeak 1970
- Trudipeak 1965
- Lynettepeak 1965
- Lynettapeak 1970
- Gerripeak 1958
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.