Meaning not yet researched.
Sheyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #863 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #863 in 2006; #2,350 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sheyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,350 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #863.
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Sheyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #863 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 309 (2006).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Sheyla, making it the 2,350th most common girls’ name of the year, down 460 places from #1,890 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 106 girls named Sheyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #863, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 309. For comparison, it was #2,191 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sheyla in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 4,241 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,985 babies named Sheyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 847 US girls were named Sheyla; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sheyla ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,150 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sheila (239,422 babies since 1880), Shyla (8,026 babies since 1880), Shiela (4,408 babies since 1880) and Sheilah (2,285 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 Sheyla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,150 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,403 | #1,366 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,420 | #1,562 |
| California | 9 | #2,253 | #1,906 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,596 | #1,913 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2008 | 252 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2007 | 250 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 2006 | 309 | #863 | — | — |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2003 | 172 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2002 | 204 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 2001 | 215 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,463 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,155 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,471 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,328 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,850 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,484 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,252 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,318 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,933 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,546 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,645 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,830 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,570 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,402 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,950 | — | — |
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).