Sheilah
Recorded 1924–2009 · United States
Sheilah was most popular in 1955, when 199 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,158 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,285 people named Sheilah.
Sheilah over time
How old is the name Sheilah?
Sheilah first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1924, which makes it about 101 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 68 of the 102 years since. It was last recorded in 2009.
How many people are named Sheilah?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,285 American births named Sheilah between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,819 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Sheilah in 2025?
Sheilah was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Sheilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Sheilah is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,285 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Sheilah?
Roughly 1,819 Americans named Sheilah are alive today — 80% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 68 years old, and half are between 57 and 73.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Sheilah is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org