Shelia

Where Shelia comes from

The dictionaries list Shelia as a given name — a female given name, variant of Sheila — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #170
    2,283 babies named Shelia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1961
    Shelia P. Moses born
    American writer
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #276.
  5. 1972
    Shelia Burrell born
    American athletics competitor
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Sheila.
Namesakes
  • Shelia Burrell · American athletics competitor, born 1972
  • Shelia P. Moses · American writer, born 1961
  • Shelia Goss · American writer, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.