Sheala

girls:

279 births since 1979

#5437 (5th percentile)

overall:

279 births since 1979

#7460 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1979 2012 19792012

Key Statistics

Total Births
279
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#785
Current Rank
#933
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Sheala

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sheala. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 85.7% confident that Sheala is pronounced as SHEE-luh. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEE-uh-luh, at 14.3% confidence.

SHEE-uh-luh (3 syllables)
14.3% confidence
SH IY1 AH0 L AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SHEE-lee-uh (3 syllables)
5 names 48.8k births
SH IY1 L IY0 AH0
SHEEL-yuh (2 syllables)
3 names 48.3k births
SH IY1 L Y 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 IY1 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.