Shailaja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name of Indian usage
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shailaja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 190Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 368Kas Sailaja
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shailaja itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sailaja in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 2 more and Shylaja in BH Bahrain.
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)A female given name of Indian usage.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shailaja 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 14 | Sailaja | 142 |
| US United States | 905as Sailaja | 1 in 368K | 904 | Sailaja | 163 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 883K | — | Sailaja | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Shailaja | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 948K | — | Sailaja | 33 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Shailaja | 13 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Shylaja | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Sailaja | 5 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mamilla Shailaja Priyab. 1978INIndian actress
- Shailaja PaikUSIndian-American historian
- Shailaja ValluriUSassociate professor of clinical ophthalmology
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shailaja mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name of Indian usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Shailaja a male or female name?
- Shailaja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shailaja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 141 thousand people named Shailaja in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sailaja.
- How common is the name Shailaja?
- In the United States, the national register counted 905 people named Sailaja in 2020, about 1 in 368 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shailajaThe 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, “Shailaja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.