Entry № 9540 · Sanskrit origin

Sheela Sheela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Character / conduct"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "character / conduct".

Sheela is from the Sanskrit Śīlā.

Character / conduct — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शीला
Transliteration
Śīlā
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sheela stands.

Sheela does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sheelas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddhist Five Precepts / Sheela Dixit
Sanskrit character conduct virtue + Buddhist Śīla three pillars + samādhi + prajñā + Five Precepts + Eightfold Path + Sheela Dixit longest-serving female CM of Delhi 1998-2013
Buddhist + Indian

Names connected to Sheela.

The number behind Sheela.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheela reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.