Girl
Shelia
As a girl's name, Shelia is understood to mean "blind". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1959.
IrishVariant of Sheila, Irish form of Cecilia
EtymologyMeaning "blind"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
24
1920s
147
1930s
384
1940s
4,012
1950s
16,794
1960s
18,502
1970s
5,854
1980s
1,353
1990s
504
2000s
190
2010s
85
Peaked in the 1960s · 47,849 total U.S. births since 1900