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Sheilia
How to Pronounce Sheilia
Pronounced SHEE-lee-uh /ˈʃiːliə/Medium
Meaning: Sheilia reads as Sheila with an extra i, most likely a clerical variant; Sheila is the Irish form of Cecilia, whose Latin root has long been read as blind and, by later tradition, heavenly.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Sheilia trailed the popular Sheila. It appeared from the early nineteen-thirties, shadowed the parent's mid-century peak, and reached a modest high in 1966.
The variant stayed rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at most, and had faded by the early nineteen-eighties. A woman named Sheilia at that peak would be in her early sixties today, almost surely writing Sheila on formal papers.
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What does the name Sheilia mean?
It is a respelling of Sheila, the Irish form of Cecilia or Celia, read as heavenly or, by tradition, blind.
How do you pronounce Sheilia?
It is said SHEE-lee-uh /ˈʃiːliə/, three syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Sheilia a boy or girl name?
Sheilia is recorded as a girl's name.
How popular is Sheilia?
It was always rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year even at its peak in the mid nineteen-sixties.