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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shelia

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

47,780

peak year 1959

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1959
2,283 births
Best rank
#170
in 1959
First recorded
1915
#4,860 that year
Last recorded
2023
no later published record
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
107 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19592,283#170Peak
  2. 19622,271#173
  3. 19602,256#177
  4. 19572,093#180
  5. 19582,091#180

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #170 in 1959 · peak births 2,283 in 1959

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

111 boys · 47,780 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shelia has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.