Shailaja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name of Indian usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeɪləjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shailaja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 368Kas Sailaja(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 43K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 197K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sailaja in US United States, KW Kuwait, ID Indonesia 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.
Sources 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Shailaja | 3 |
| US United States | 905as Sailaja | 1 in 368K | 904 | Sailaja | 163 |
| AO Angola | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Shailaja | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 570K | — | Sailaja | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Shailaja | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Shailaja | 13 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Shylaja | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | 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: 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)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 692 | #16,344 |
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).
- How do you pronounce Shailaja?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɪləjə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shailaja a male or female name?
- Shailaja 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 Shailaja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Shailaja in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shailaja.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Shailaja?
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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 2026-10-10.