Sheilah is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Sheilah 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 Sheilah. That means that a girl named Sheilah 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 Sheilah.
Is the name Sheilah a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 199 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1955 – at that time, it ranked #632. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Sheilah is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Sheilah, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sheilah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Sheilah born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Sheilah born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Sheilah 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 Sheilah in 22 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Sheilah live in Missouri – here, one in 102,411 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 255,676 will turn around if you call her first name Sheilah.
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 seven letters, the name Sheilah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.
If your name is Sheilah 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 Sheilah, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sheilah
Sheilah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
E
I
L
A
H
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
E
I
L
A
H
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. Sheilah sounds like this:
