Shaila
Shaila reached its high-water mark in 2010 at number 1,035, and has been recorded 3,260 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,099th. About 3,200 Shailas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Shaila
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,260
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 1,035th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,099th
- First recorded
- 1960
How old the living Shailas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,260 babies given the name since 1960, about 3,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Shailas
- Shaila Abdullah (born 1971)American writer, author and designer
People named Shaila with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shaila is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shaila is most concentrated in California (4.3×), Texas (2.9×), Florida (2.0×), Arizona (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular girls’ names the year Shaila peaked:
Shaila elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Shaila | 94 | 2,148th |
| France girls | Shaila +1 spelling | 55 | 2,899th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Shaila: rank by region
In 2015, Shaila was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Shaila | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Shaila lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,210 women called Shaila were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Shaila | 105 | 0.189 | 570 |
| Palmas, Las | Shaila | 99 | 0.168 | 637 |
| Lugo | Shaila | 18 | 0.107 | 690 |
| Coruña, A | Shaila | 62 | 0.105 | 669 |
| Ourense | Shaila | 15 | 0.095 | 717 |
| Pontevedra | Shaila | 44 | 0.090 | 738 |
Listed in 46 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 6 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Shaila against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.