Shélia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shélia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 10K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 38M
- GYGuyana1 in 188K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)
33,324 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shelia in US United States, FR France, BR Brazil and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shélia 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 33,324 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Shelia | 184 |
| BR Brazil | — | 101 | 1 in 2.1M | 125 | Shelia | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 38M | — | Shelia | 33 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 63 | — | — |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #117 | — | — | — | Shelia | 2 |
33,324 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shélia a male or female name?
- Shélia 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 Shélia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Shélia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shelia.
- Where is Shélia most common?
- Shélia is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 10.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shélia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,324 people named Shélia in 2020, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Shélia compared with other names?
- In Guinea-Bissau, Shélia is the 117th most common given name of 117 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shélia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%A9liaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Shélia” — the 117th most common given name in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.