Šeila

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Sievietes vārds

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

Šeila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 33K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 59K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 87K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

1,502 people

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Sievietes vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šeila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Šeila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,5021 in 33K1.5K—1
BR Brazil1,2281 in 172K1.5K——
US United States2741 in 1.2M238—1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈44 est.≈1 in 87K—Šeila6
LV Latvia321 in 59K32Šeila5
HR Croatia301 in 141K30Šeila8
SI Slovenia131 in 162K13—1

1,502 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šeila is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Latvian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Seila

  • Spanish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

    Also written Seila, Seilá, Şeila

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Seila

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Estonia, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Seila

  • Russian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сейла, Seila, Şeyla, Seyla

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Šeila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—32—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—32#1,997
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202130#3,049
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202120—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202513#2,282
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202413#2,259
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202312#2,325
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201211#2,126
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201111#2,081
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201011#2,038
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200911#2,005
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200811#1,970

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Šeila mean?
Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
Is Šeila a male or female name?
Šeila 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.
In which country does Šeila have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Šeila, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Šeila most common?
Šeila is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Šeila?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,502 people named Šeila, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Šeila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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