US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE SHEILA

Same rise and fall as Sheila, around the same years.

WHERE SHEILA IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Sheila ranked highest in Virginia (#1,902) and lowest in Texas (#4,562). 44 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Sheila name popularity

Sheila has been given to 239,422 babies in the United States since 1907.

It peaked in 1962, when 8,807 babies got the name, and its best rank was #95 in 1963.

In 2025, 65 babies were named Sheila (#4,676 in the country), 99.2% below the peak. That is down 48% from 2015.

Almost every Sheila is a girl.

An estimated 188K people named Sheila are alive in the US today, with a median age of 64.

It was a top-100 name in 4 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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