Sila

given name · Latin script

Meaning: name of a man (K)

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

/siɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • KEKenya≈1 in 622as Sheila(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 752as Sheila
  • IEIreland≈1 in 866as Sheila

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 Sila 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)

202,159 named Sheila, 2020

#308 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
565 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 622 (inferred from the name graph)

Kenya, est., as Sheila

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SheilaLatin(measured from records)
שיילהHebrew(measured from records)
ШейлаCyrillic(measured from records)
실라Hangul(measured from records)
শেলBengali(measured from records)
ሽላEthiopic(measured from records)
შეილაGeorgian(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sheila in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 3 more and Sheyla in BR Brazil.

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)

name of a man (K)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sila 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 Sila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#208202,159as Sheila1 in 1.6K202KSheila565
PH Philippines#214≈91,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Sheila145
GB United Kingdom#133≈87,000 est.≈1 in 752856Sheila278
KE Kenya#105≈86,000 est.≈1 in 622—Sheila71
BR Brazil—79,225as Sheila1 in 2.7K86KSheyla109
CA Canada#195≈33,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K3Sheila253
IE Ireland#122≈6,000 est.≈1 in 866—Sheila108

202,159 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)

Sila is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, India, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Şila

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Türkiye

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Sila

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, India, Türkiye

    Also written Silá, Sîlâ, Silà, Śīla, Silā

  • Spanish surname184 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, France

    Languages: Spanish, English, French

    Also written Sala, Sola, ศาลา, สละ, สีลา

  • Turkish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şila, Šíla, Şílắ

  • a separate name14 spellings in the group

    Also written Śīla, Sīlā, Şila, Śīlā, Silā

50 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)

Sila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tut-pro, dew, liquid; hoar-frost

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In xgn-pro, completely, utterly

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Russian, "suffering."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In tuw-pro, scarcely

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In tuw-pro, spit

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

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)

19401960198020002020Sila María Calderón, b. 1942Sila María González, b. 1965Sıla, b. 1980Sıla Şahin, b. 1985Sila Puafisi, b. 1988Anne Sila, b. 1990Sıla Saygı, b. 1996Elif Sıla Aydın, b. 1996Sıla Türkoğlu, b. 1999Sıla Çağlar, b. 2004

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)

Informalनमस्ते Sila जी,Hi Sila, (English)

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 81 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Sila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020406#54,736
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000307#61,207
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010290#67,943

Reference works 8

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 Sila?
A machine transcription gives /siɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Sila mean, and where does it come from?
name of a man (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
Is Sila a male or female name?
Sila 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 Sila have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 202 thousand people named Sheila, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sila?
In the United States, the national register counted 202,159 people named Sheila in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
How common is Sila compared with other names?
In the United States, Sila is the 208th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Sila” — the 208th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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