Feminine dossier · first seen 1935

Shela

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1950

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1935Peak 19502024

Peak year

1950

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,398

Shela 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 1950, when 44 girls were named Shela.

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 1,398 Americans have been named Shela and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1935.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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