Sheilah
Sheilah is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 664th, in 1955.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1955199 births
- Best rank
- #664in 1955
- Since 1924
- 2,285people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,285 girls have been named Sheilah in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 199 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 199 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1955, its biggest year
Sheilah was the 664th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Sheilah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dremapeak 1959
- Karanpeak 1956
- Suzanpeak 1955
- Rosannepeak 1954
- Suannepeak 1954
- Pamellapeak 1954
- Sheryllpeak 1955
- Bonnypeak 1958
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.