girls:
1.4k births since 1935
#4330 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1935
#6345 (18th percentile)
The name Shela is the #6,345 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,398 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 18.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,330 (24.2% percentile) for all time with 1,398 births since 1935.
Shela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (first recorded for girls in 1935). Birth data for Shela is available in 69 out of the 73 years between 1935 and 2007. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Shela reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #632) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shela".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Sheila. View all variations of Sheila.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Shela", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 18 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Sheila" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Sheila..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Shela is pronounced as SHEE-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEH-luh, at 24.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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