Feminine dossier · first seen 1924

Sheilah

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Sheilah
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1955

Peak rank proxy

199

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1924Peak 19552024

Peak year

1955

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,285

Sheilah has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1955, when 199 girls were named Sheilah.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,285 Americans have been named Sheilah and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1924.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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