Shaela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Shaela is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Shaela come from?
Modern: modern respelling of Shayla
Is Shaela a girl's or a boy's name?
Shaela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shaela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Shaela, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 47 girls. It first appears in the records in 1967.
Half of all the girls named Shaela in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 200 girls in the US were given Shaela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Shaela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,268 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,880 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,379 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,733 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,457 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,744 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,865 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,974 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,205 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,970 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,893 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,926 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,730 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,896 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,017 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,367 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,346 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,915 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,030 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,073 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,778 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,835 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,980 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,026 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,858 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,477 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,886 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,911 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,957 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,514 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,578 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,803 |
Names like Shaela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Salma, Kiana, Kiara, Summer, Samira, Jayla, Sasha, Safa, Brianna, Kayla, Mckenna, Ayla
Other spellings of Shaela
Names related to Shaela
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Shaela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shaela, updated 20 October 2026.