Sheli

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sheli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 1.4Kas שלי(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5Kas Mia
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 546K

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 Sheli 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.

United States (measured from records)

219,780 named Mia, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
196 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 546K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SheliLatin(measured from records)
שליHebrew(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mia in FI Finland, CH Switzerland and שלי in IL Israel.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sheli 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.

Where Sheli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—219,780as Mia1 in 1.5K219KSheli196
EC Ecuador—31,661as Mia1 in 53432K—1
ES Spain—16,391as Mia1 in 3.1K16K—5
PL Poland—14,178as Mia1 in 2.7K14K—3
DK Denmark—10,454as Mia1 in 56110K—2
NO Norway—8,464as Mia1 in 64628K—2
FI Finland—8,179as Mia1 in 6819.2KMia5
IL Israel#300≈6,100 est.≈1 in 1.4K1.5Kשלי61
SI Slovenia—3,290as Mia1 in 6393.5K——
CH Switzerland—≈15 est.≈1 in 546K367Mia2

219,780 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling mia. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sheli is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Shelley, Seli, Shelly, শেলি, Śelī

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Shéli

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, India, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Šhëli

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sheli 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 dag, 1. something; anything; some; KO inanimate sg. of so q.v. any 2. some place hence

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

  • In dag, major street, highway KO

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

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)

1920194019601980Shelia Mulloy, b. 1922Shelia Burnett, b. 1949Sheila Ager, b. 1956Shelia P. Moses, b. 1961Shelia Goss, b. 1968Shelia Burrell, b. 1972

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Sheli a male or female name?
Sheli 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 Sheli have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 220 thousand people named Mia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sheli?
In the United States, the national register counted 219,780 people named Mia in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Sheli compared with other names?
In Israel, Sheli is the 300th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheli

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Sheli” — the 300th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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