Shelia
Shelia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 170th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19592,283 births
- Best rank
- #170in 1959
- Since 1915
- 47,780people given the name
The story in the numbers
47,780 girls have been named Shelia in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 2,283 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 2,283 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 39%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shelia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | |
| 1920s | 147 | |
| 1930s | 384 | |
| 1940s | 4,013 | |
| 1950s | 16,753 | |
| 1960s | 18,443 | |
| 1970s | 5,842 | |
| 1980s | 1,353 | |
| 1990s | 504 | |
| 2000s | 190 | |
| 2010s | 93 | |
| 2020s | 34 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Shelia was the 170th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Shelia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cathipeak 1961
- Denesepeak 1954
- Brunildapeak 1959
- Merripeak 1963
- Terriepeak 1961
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Lorrypeak 1960
- Lisepeak 1959
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.