Sheilah

Where Sheilah comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sheilah.

Sheilah through the years
  1. 1913
    Sheilah Beckett born
    American illustrator
  2. 1924
    First appearance
    #5,061 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1955
    Peak, #663
    199 babies named Sheilah, the most in any year.
  4. 1956
    Sheilah Martin born
    Canadian Supreme Court judge
  5. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,176.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Sheilah Martin · Canadian Supreme Court judge, born 1956
  • Sheilah Beckett · American illustrator, 1913–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.