Sheilah

Where Sheilah comes from

Sheilah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1913
    Sheilah Beckett born
    American illustrator
  2. 1924
    First appearance
    #5,061 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1955
    Peak, #663
    199 babies named Sheilah — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.