Sheyla
#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 309 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,241since 1970
Sheyla over time
Rank among girls' names. Sheyla has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,326 | 78 |
| 2024 | #1,884 | 106 |
| 2023 | #2,229 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 |
| 2021 | #2,186 | 85 |
| 2020 | #2,549 | 67 |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 |
| 2018 | #2,179 | 86 |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 |
| 2016 | #2,068 | 95 |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 87 |
| 2014 | #1,940 | 103 |
| 2013 | #1,849 | 109 |
| 2012 | #1,782 | 115 |
| 2011 | #1,598 | 135 |
| 2010 | #1,500 | 149 |
| 2009 | #1,392 | 170 |
| 2008 | #1,038 | 252 |
| 2007 | #1,048 | 250 |
| 2006 | #862 | 309 |
| 2005 | #1,406 | 152 |
| 2004 | #1,387 | 150 |
| 2003 | #1,227 | 172 |
| 2002 | #1,051 | 204 |
| 2001 | #997 | 215 |
| 2000 | #1,588 | 111 |
| 1999 | #2,182 | 69 |
| 1998 | #2,066 | 71 |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,573 | 48 |
| 1992 | #2,488 | 51 |
| 1991 | #2,703 | 44 |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sheyla! It came in at #6,362, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sheyla is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#400 · 1 in 1,859
- New Jersey#420 · 1 in 2,068
- Alabama#694 · 1 in 3,497
- California#708 · 1 in 4,170
- Texas#772 · 1 in 4,414
Best ever in a state: #291 in New Jersey, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #400 | 7 | 1 in 1,859 |
| New Jersey | #420 | 19 | 1 in 2,068 |
| Alabama | #694 | 6 | 1 in 3,497 |
| California | #708 | 55 | 1 in 4,170 |
| Texas | #772 | 38 | 1 in 4,414 |
| New York | #785 | 21 | 1 in 4,549 |
| Arizona | #804 | 9 | 1 in 4,055 |
| Florida | #818 | 18 | 1 in 4,782 |
| Maryland | #898 | 5 | 1 in 5,055 |
| Illinois | #1,057 | 10 | 1 in 6,622 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 8 | 1 in 6,602 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 7 | 1 in 6,868 |
| Virginia | #1,188 | 5 | 1 in 7,524 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sheyla
- 442 spots since 2024 (#1,884 → #2,326)
- 223 spots since 2020 (#2,549 → #2,326)
- 157 spots since 2015 (#2,169 → #2,326)
- Biggest jump: 591 spots in 2001 (#1,588 → #997)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 2007 (#862 → #1,048)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2006 at #862 (309 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2001–2006
- Highest: 1 in 6,153 girls born in 2006 were named Sheyla (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.8% of all girls named Sheyla (1,985) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 44 | #6,362 (1970) | #7,809 |
| 1980s | 143 | #3,673 (1989) | #5,435 |
| 1990s | 524 | #2,066 (1998) | #2,534 |
| 2000s | 1,985 | #862 (2006) | #1,200 |
| 2010s | 1,018 | #1,500 (2010) | #2,017 |
| 2020s | 527 | #1,884 (2024) | #2,177 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sheyla in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 7,504 of them was named Sheyla, which outranked 94.9% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,030Yamileth254
- #1,036Meagan253
- #1,036Melinda253
- #1,038Sheyla252
- #1,038Caydence252
- #1,038Jaeda252
- #1,038Karis252
- #1,043Brandi251
- #1,043Carli251
- #1,045Antonia250
Tied with 4 names at #1,038; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.