How Many People Are Named Shelia?
people named Shelia are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 8,533 people in the US has this name
Based on 47,891 babies named Shelia in Social Security records from 1915 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,293 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of SHEILA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Shelia (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shelia alive today is about 63 years old, and 68% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 69 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shelia first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 1959, to 2,293 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Shelia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #170, in 1959.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #170 (1959) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #189 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shelia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shelia were born in Texas than in any other state: about 3,405 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shelia was given 4.4 times as often in Mississippi, 4.3 times in Alabama and 4 times in Tennessee.
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