Shiela

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shiela is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.4K◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 26K
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 31K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.6K ●

across 5 countries

Sources
258 ●

159K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 77K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Shiela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#152123,78079K rec.—35KShiela133
GB United Kingdom—5,7315.3K rec.—listedShiela67
US United States—4,29857K rec.1 in 77K4.3KShiela258
ID Indonesia—3,4403.3K rec.——Shiela41
CA Canada—1,7401.7K rec.—1Shiela64
AU Australia—1,4131.3K rec.—1Shiela55
ZA South Africa—1,1031.1K rec.——Shiela26
MY Malaysia—961655 rec.——Shiela32
IN India—835591 rec.—5Shiela28
TH Thailand—616350 rec.——Shiela21
SG Singapore#823577517 rec.——Shiela25
IT Italy—498529 rec.——Shiela12

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English145K65%
  • Spanish38K17%
  • Indonesian8K4%
  • 6.8K3%
  • Portuguese5.3K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English144,62265%
Spanish38,42417%
Indonesian8,0324%
6,7823%
Portuguese5,3322%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shiela is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name179 records spelled Shiela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Malaysia

    Also written ଶୀଲା

  • Russian given name133 records spelled Shiela5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Шиела

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010020030019201940196019802000216 · 1970

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Shiela in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1908–2001
Yearrecords
19087
19155
19206
192413
19255
19267
19277
192912
193012
19319
193211
193313
19347
193523
193629
193717
193819
193920
194025
194141
194246
194342
194440
194556
194658
194779
194874
194974
195075
195192
195281
195392
195476
195581
195699
1957115
195898
1959131
1960126
1961136
1962127
1963157
1964156
1965146
1966134
1967112
1968129
1969132
1970216
1971139
1972116
197391
197472
197553
197675
197753
197847
197944
198039
198129
198247
198325
198431
198537
198630
198733
198813
198916
199022
199125
199221
199317
199418
19958
19968
199710
19996
20007
20018

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 79 years between 1908–2001. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 32 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Shiela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202235K#226
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.3K#4,368
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1970216—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022202—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—200#25,214
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990170—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1963157—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1964156—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1965146—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1971139—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1961136—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1966134—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 149 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shiela?
We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Shiela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Shiela have the most bearers?
Shiela is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled shiela.
How common is Shiela compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Shiela is the 152nd most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Shiela a male or female name?
Shiela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shiela” — the 152nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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