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The first name 
Shaila

Shaila is a female first name.

When two girls called Shaila meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Shaila is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Shaila. In the SmartGenius ranking, Shaila is #2,272 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shaila.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Shaila

Shaila -
keeping with the times

Shaila is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Shaila cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #976 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2010. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Shaila, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Shaila seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Shaila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Shaila in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

29 babies were named Shaila in 2022 - that's 1 in 5,111,445 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Shaila ranked 4,122 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Shaila -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Shaila are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Shaila in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Shaila live in California – here, one in 23,634 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 104,030 will turn around if you call her first name Shaila.

Shaila has 6 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Shaila is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.

Other names with 
S, h, a, i, l and a

If you take all the letters in the name Shaila – S, h, a, i, l and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Saliha or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Shaila

If your name is Shaila and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Shaila

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shaila, you can simply say:

Sun

Hat

Apple

Igloo

Lion

Apple

This is how the name Shaila is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Shaila in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Shaila

Shaila

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Shaila

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Shaila is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
H
A
I
L
A

Have you ever waved the name Shaila

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
H
A
I
L
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shaila sounds like this: