Seela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SEE-la
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Seela is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
Where does Seela come from?
Uncertain; a Finnish name, and also a spelling of Sheela
Is Seela a girl's or a boy's name?
Seela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Seela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,131among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Seela, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. It first appears in the records in 2012.
2025 had the most girls named Seela of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Seela in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,460 girls in the US were given Seela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #241, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.
Seela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
Names like Seela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Sama Zayla Salem Ayra Amoura Zaya Rahma Hafsa Raha Zhamira Sayla
Other spellings of Seela
Names related to Seela
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Seela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/seela, updated 20 October 2026.