girls:
1.1k births since 1941
#4636 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1941
#6659 (14th percentile)
The name Shila is the #6,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,080 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 13.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,636 (18.9% percentile) for all time with 1,080 births since 1941.
Shila first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (first recorded for girls in 1941). Birth data for Shila is available in 68 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023. 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, Shila reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #754) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shila ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 17.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shila".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shila is pronounced as SHEE-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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