sHElAn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ʃiɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
sHElAn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 152K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- SYSyria≈1 in 219K
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
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)sHElAn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | sHElAn | 3 |
| SY Syria | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | sHElAn | 4 |
| US United States | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | 5 | sHElAn | 81 |
| PH Philippines | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | sHElAn | 14 |
| SE Sweden | 67 | 1 in 152K | 67 | sHElAn | 8 |
| IQ Iraq | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | sHElAn | 10 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 69 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 67 | #11,238 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 66 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 66 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 65 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 65 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 64 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 60 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 59 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce sHElAn?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃiɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is sHElAn a male or female name?
- sHElAn 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 sHElAn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 people named sHElAn in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sHElAn.
- Where is sHElAn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, sHElAn is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 152 thousand people — even though Ghana holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name sHElAn?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 67 people named sHElAn, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about sHElAn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shelanThe 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, “sHElAn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.