Scheila
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Scheila is a given name, most frequently recorded in Brazil. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 38K◐
- VEVenezuela1 in 1.7M
- ARArgentina1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 57,063 | 97% |
| US United States | 778 | 1% |
| AR Argentina | 186 | 1% |
| FR France | 116 | 1% |
| VE Venezuela | 109 | 1% |
≈58,252 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese52K88%
- English6.4K11%
- Spanish5311%
- French1271%
- German571%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 51,557 | 88% |
| English | 6,427 | 11% |
| Spanish | 531 | 1% |
| French | 127 | 1% |
| German | 57 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1950 | 56 |
| 1960 | 156 |
| 1970 | 435 |
| 1980 | 1,737 |
| 1990 | 3,817 |
| 2000 | 5,246 |
| 2010 | 5,535 |
| 2022 | 5,589 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 years between 1940–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Scheila Gonzalezb. 1971USAmerican musician
- Scheila Carvalhob. 1973BRBrazilian model
- Scheila de Avila E SilvaBRresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.6K | #2,546 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 5.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.4K | #3,222 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5.3K | #1,418 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 435 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Scheila?
- Our records include 58,252 bearers of Scheila across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Scheila have the most bearers?
- Scheila is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- Is Scheila a male or female name?
- Scheila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Scheila”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.