Sheila Girl
How popular is Sheila?
#2,645 girl name in 2025
65 baby girls were named Sheila in the US in 2025, making it the 2645th most popular girl name.
Sheila popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,645 for girls (▼ 634 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 65 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-48% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,704 in 2015, #1,593 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1962 (8,778 girls) |
| Highest rank | #50 in 1963 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1907 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sheila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sheila family of names ranked #1,247 for girls in 2025 (#1,027 the year before), with 143 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sheila | 65 | 45% |
| Sheyla | 78 | 55% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sheila is most popular
Babies named Sheila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.1 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (42 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (36 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Sheila by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 33 | #1,152 |
| 1910s | 388 | #821 |
| 1920s | 1,853 | #367 |
| 1930s | 10,958 | #125 |
| 1940s | 35,740 | #70 |
| 1950s | 70,174 | #52 |
| 1960s | 74,078 | #50 |
| 1970s | 26,509 | #75 |
| 1980s | 9,541 | #214 |
| 1990s | 4,646 | #400 |
| 2000s | 2,868 | #657 |
| 2010s | 1,349 | #1,278 |
| 2020s | 637 | #1,593 |
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Questions
- Is Sheila a boy or girl name?
- Sheila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sheila were girls.
- How popular is the name Sheila?
- 65 baby girls were named Sheila in the US in 2025, making it the 2645th most popular girl name.
- When was Sheila most popular?
- Sheila peaked in 1962, when 8,778 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #50, held for 2 years starting in 1963.
- How many people are named Sheila?
- 239,422 babies have been named Sheila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 193,221 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 64.
- Where is Sheila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sheila was most common in New Jersey, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.