Shilah

Where Shilah comes from

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

Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #6,900 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #2,822
    64 babies named Shilah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,568.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Shilah hasn't yet.

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.