# Shelia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shelia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 47,891 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 111 / 47,780 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | 9,988 |
| 2009 | 19 | 7,028 |
| 2010 | 13 | 9,153 |
| 2011 | 8 | 13,182 |
| 2012 | 8 | 13,292 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,987 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,833 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10,057 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9,349 |
| 2017 | 16 | 7,390 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,604 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,453 |
| 2021 | 9 | 11,035 |
| 2022 | 7 | 13,380 |
| 2023 | 7 | 13,266 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 6 | 3,829 |
| 1956 | 5 | 4,392 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,931 |
| 1958 | 6 | 3,879 |
| 1959 | 10 | 2,794 |
| 1960 | 8 | 3,299 |
| 1961 | 8 | 3,319 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,540 |
| 1963 | 8 | 3,282 |
| 1964 | 9 | 3,019 |
| 1965 | 11 | 2,598 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,889 |
| 1968 | 5 | 4,649 |
| 1970 | 5 | 5,336 |
| 1971 | 7 | 4,319 |

## People named Shelia

- Shelia Burrell, American athletics competitor (born 1972)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.