Shila is a female first name.
Recently, the name Shila 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 Shila. That means that a girl named Shila 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 Shila.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shila. Girls named Shila have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,596 Shila ranked higher than ever in 1975. By comparison, there have been 76 years in which the first name Shila 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 Shila only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Meeting a woman or girl named Shila is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Shila can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Shila. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Shila living in one state or another (if your name is Shila and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shila is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00024% of all female residents are named Shila – that’s just one in 414,248! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 36 women with that name. So, if your name is Shila, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 Shila 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 Shila 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 Shila, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shila
Shila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
I
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
I
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. Shila sounds like this:
