Meaning not yet researched.
Shaila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,041 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,041 in 2010; #5,211 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,211 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,041.
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Shaila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,041 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 241 (2010).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Shaila, making it the 5,211th most common girls’ name of the year, up 723 places from #5,934 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 21 girls named Shaila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,041, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 241. For comparison, it was #2,497 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaila in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 3,260 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,077 babies named Shaila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 377 US girls were named Shaila; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shayla (30,950 babies since 1880) and Shala (2,061 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shaila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,934 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,727 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,779 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,592 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 2008 | 218 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 2007 | 201 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,748 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,180 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,580 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,140 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,134 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,440 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,732 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,292 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,550 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,621 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,270 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).