Sheyla

Where Sheyla comes from

Sheyla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #6,362 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Sheyla Fariña born
    Spanish actress, voice actress and model
  3. 1994
    Sheyla Gutiérrez born
    Spanish cyclist
  4. 2006
    Peak, #862
    309 babies named Sheyla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,500.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sheyla Gutiérrez · Spanish cyclist, born 1994
  • Sheyla Fariña · Spanish actress, voice actress and model, born 1986
  • Sheyla Hershey · Men's magazine/glamour model & TV personality, born 1979
  • Sheyla Tadeo · Mexican comedian, born 1973
  • Sheyla Hernandez Estupinan · Cuban Paralympic judoka, born 2000

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.