Cheila

girls:

121 births since 1978

#5595 (2nd percentile)

overall:

121 births since 1978

#7618 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cheila".

1978 2011 19782011

Key Statistics

Total Births
121
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
2002
First Recorded
1978
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#756
Current Rank
#938
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Cheila

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Cheila. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 60.0% confident that Cheila is pronounced as SHAY-luh. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAY-luh, at 22.9% confidence.

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CHAY-luh (2 syllables)
22.9% confidence
CH EY1 L AH0
CHEE-luh (2 syllables)
8.6% confidence
CH IY1 L AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cheila. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cheila, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SHEH-luh (2 syllables)
5 names 3.9k births
SH EH1 L AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH EY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.