Shaila
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 241 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,260since 1960
Shaila over time
Rank among girls' names. Shaila has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 |
| 2020 | #3,735 | 39 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,643 | 66 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 |
| 2014 | #2,071 | 94 |
| 2013 | #1,646 | 129 |
| 2012 | #1,351 | 173 |
| 2011 | #1,402 | 163 |
| 2010 | #1,035 | 241 |
| 2009 | #1,561 | 144 |
| 2008 | #1,178 | 218 |
| 2007 | #1,233 | 201 |
| 2006 | #1,608 | 133 |
| 2005 | #3,170 | 49 |
| 2004 | #2,446 | 69 |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 |
| 2000 | #2,190 | 72 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 |
| 1997 | #2,070 | 68 |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 |
| 1995 | #2,650 | 46 |
| 1994 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 1993 | #2,267 | 57 |
| 1992 | #2,459 | 52 |
| 1991 | #2,484 | 50 |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 |
| 1988 | #3,095 | 32 |
| 1987 | #3,169 | 29 |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shaila! It came in at #5,696, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shaila is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,727 · 1 in 19,574
- California#2,017 · 1 in 24,957
Best ever in a state: #248 in Hawaii, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,727 | 7 | 1 in 19,574 |
| California | #2,017 | 10 | 1 in 24,957 |
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See more about Shaila
- 700 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #5,099)
- 1,364 spots since 2020 (#3,735 → #5,099)
- 2,628 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #5,099)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2010 at #1,035 (241 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,376 girls born in 2010 were named Shaila (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.0% of all girls named Shaila (1,077) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 42 | #4,198 (1966) | #5,647 |
| 1970s | 124 | #3,612 (1977) | #4,931 |
| 1980s | 231 | #3,045 (1989) | #3,850 |
| 1990s | 545 | #2,070 (1997) | #2,420 |
| 2000s | 1,068 | #1,178 (2008) | #2,110 |
| 2010s | 1,077 | #1,035 (2010) | #2,281 |
| 2020s | 173 | #3,735 (2020) | #4,744 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shaila in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 31,738 of them was named Shaila, which outranked 85.7% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,241Tequila58
- #2,241Theodora58
- #2,241Yael58
- #2,267Shaila57
- #2,267Annalee57
- #2,267Brennan57
- #2,267Brie57
- #2,289Alexius56
- #2,289Alise56
- #2,289Brynne56
Tied with 21 names at #2,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.