Shiela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shiela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.9K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 27K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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(measured from records)
Shiela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #153 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 35K | Shiela | 147 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Shiela | 47 |
| US United States | — | 4,306 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Shiela | 296 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Shiela | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Shiela | 91 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Shiela | 43 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Shiela | 27 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Shiela | 14 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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)
- Shiela Grant Duffb. 1913GBBritish journalist
- Shiela Valderramab. 1978PHFilipino actress
- Shiela M StraussUSresearcher
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(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.3K | #4,368 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 216 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 157 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 156 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 146 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 139 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 136 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 134 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 132 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 131 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 129 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 127 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- In which country does Shiela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Shiela in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shiela.
- How common is the name Shiela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,306 people named Shiela in 2020, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Shiela compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Shiela is the 153rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shielaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shiela” — the 153rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.