Shala is a female first name.
Recently, the name Shala has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Shala. That means that a girl named Shala is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shala.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shala. Girls named Shala have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,406 Shala ranked higher than ever before in 1985. By comparison, there have been 86 years in which the first name Shala has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Shala only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shala was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Shala are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Shala is registered in 15 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Shala live in Kansas, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 105,253 would turn around if you called the name Shala across Kansas.
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 five letters, the name Shala is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
If your name is Shala 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shala, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shala
Shala
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
L
A
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
L
A
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. Shala sounds like this:
