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Sheila is also used in Brazil.
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Fun fact: Sheila is often used as a term throughout Australia referring to women. Sort of like another word for it such as Gal, lady, lassie, girly, chick, Jane Doe and whatever else.
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Also used in Spanish. Its pronunciation is SHAY-la.
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In 2018, 48 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Sheila who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 243rd most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
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The name Sheila was given to 124 girls born in the US in 2015.
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My name is Sheila, & growing up I always wanted my name to be something else, however, now that I'm older, I like my name because I rarely come across others with it, & I worked in a field where all I dealt with were names. Most of my friends, or people I've dated, even my husband haven't come across another person with my name, it makes me feel unique! In Australia a "Sheila" is just a woman, they use the term positively as well, not as a prostitute just for women in general. Working in health care, I've never even heard it with the middle aged or older women here in the states, so I'm not sure of people saying it was very popular.
When I had children, & started to name them, I thought of names that had meaning to us, & to them not to a teacher they may have 10 years down the road, or a person who would comment on it who we'll never meet! I find people are way too opinionated about what other people call their children, you have way too much time on your hands, & really should put some thought into your own lives, & your family's lives, you'll be happier for it! What a ridiculous thing, a place for people to comment on others names, get a life or a job, something, but leave people alone!
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When I had children, & started to name them, I thought of names that had meaning to us, & to them not to a teacher they may have 10 years down the road, or a person who would comment on it who we'll never meet! I find people are way too opinionated about what other people call their children, you have way too much time on your hands, & really should put some thought into your own lives, & your family's lives, you'll be happier for it! What a ridiculous thing, a place for people to comment on others names, get a life or a job, something, but leave people alone!
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Pronunciation: /'ʃej.la/, /'sej.la/
In Spanish it is usually pronounced SHAY-lah or SAY-lah, not SHEE-lə. In fact, there are two spellings of this name in use in Spain: Sheila and Seila. The reason for this is that the sound [ʃ] isn't typically found in monolingual speakers of Spanish in northern and central Spain, but it is more commonly known by younger generations due to exposure to the English language. Speakers from Latin America, Andalusia or the Canary Islands might find the sound of [ʃ] closer to their /tʃ/ than to their /s/, so they may use the variant Cheila. Finally, bilingual regions such as Galicia and Catalonia do have the phoneme [ʃ] in their languages (represented by letter X), so they ocassionaly use the variant Xeila.
According to National Institute of Statistics of Spain, there are 19945 women named Sheila, 1475 named Seila, 158 named Xeila and 63 named Cheila.
(Information from name #429235 originally submitted by user navarretedf)