MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shaila mean?
Shaila is a feminine name built on Sanskrit shaila, mountain or mountainous. It can be used as a short form of Shailaja, the mountain-born name of Parvati, giving it a further goddess association.
Pronunciation
IAST: śailā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शैला
Letter-by-letter: śailā
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಶೈಲಾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shaila in Indian usage
7,511 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 567 |
| 1970s | 1,715 |
| 1980s | 3,354 |
| 1990s | 1,702 |
| Other decades | 173 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 7,511 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, śaila, p. 1089,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śailajā, p. 1089,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.