Shaila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A question, especially a religious or legal one posed to a rabbi regarding Jewish law (halacha)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeɪlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shaila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 41K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 105K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 9.5K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A question, especially a religious or legal one posed to a rabbi regarding Jewish law (halacha).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shaila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #997 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Shaila | 54 |
| US United States | — | 3,176 | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Shaila | 248 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 128K | listed | Shaila | 22 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Shaila | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Shaila | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,210 | 1 in 41K | 1.2K | Shaila | 59 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Shaila | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Shaila | 26 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shaila is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, burning candle
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Complete
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shaila Rubinb. 1935USAmerican casting director (1935-2006)
- Shaila Abdullahb. 1971USAmerican writer, author and designer
- Shaila Seshia Galvinb. 1976USanthropologist
- Shaila Dúrcalb. 1979ESSpanish singer
- Liza Koshyb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican Internet personality
- Shaila Gattab. 1996ITItalian dancer and television personality (born 1996)
- Shaila Arseneb. 1998BRBrazilian actress
- Shaila CatherineAmerican Buddhist meditation teacher and author
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,421 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #2,514 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #1,278 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #5,421 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Shaila?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɪlə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Shaila mean, and where does it come from?
- A question, especially a religious or legal one posed to a rabbi regarding Jewish law (halacha). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Shaila a male or female name?
- Shaila 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 Shaila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Shaila in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaila.
- How common is the name Shaila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,176 people named Shaila in 2020, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
- How common is Shaila compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shaila is the 997th most common given name of 29,323 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/shailaThe 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, “Shaila” — the 997th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.