Shela

Girls' name · Mid-century

Living in the US: ~1,200 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 1,398 since 1880
Typical age: 59 years, median

Shela popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1935–2007. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Shela in 1950 than in any other year — 44 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1935. No births were recorded under this name in 2025; the most recent year with data is 2007.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Shela?

An estimated 1,200 living Americans are called Shela. That is out of 1,398 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Shela?

Half of living Shelas are older than 59, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1960s. By the site’s era rules that makes Shela a mid-century name.

Your Shela

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Names similar to Shela

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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