Feminine dossier · first seen 1915

Shelia

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

Stable Decline Gradual decline from 1959

Peak era

1959

Peak rank proxy

2,283

Current vitality

Below reporting floor

Generation

Boomer

1915Peak 19592024

Peak year

1959

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

47,780

Shelia is past its period of maximum cultural dominance, but it has not disappeared. Unlike names that burn out quickly, it still carries enough usage to remain cross-generational rather than purely nostalgic.

Your name peaked in 1959, when 2,283 girls were named Shelia.

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 47,780 Americans have been named Shelia and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1915.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryGradual decline from 1959

19592,283 girls named Shelia

20240 (extinct) girls named Shelia

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