Sheila is the anglicized Irish *Síle* — itself from the Latin Cecilia ("blind, heavenly"). **A top-30 US baby name from 1944 to 1963**. **Sheila Escovedo "Sheila E." (born 1957)** — **American singer and percussionist; longtime Prince collaborator; her 1984 album *The Glamorous Life* spawned the title track which reached #7 on the *Billboard* Hot 100; co-musical director of the 2007 Super Bowl XLI halftime show with Prince**. **Sheila Heen (born 1962)** — Harvard Law School lecturer and co-author of *Difficult Conversations* (1999, 3 million copies sold) and *Thanks for the Feedback* (2014). **Sheila Jackson Lee (1950-2024)** — US Congresswoman from Texas (1995-2024); led the effort to make Juneteenth a federal holiday (signed into law June 17, 2021). **Sheila Bair (born 1954)** — first woman to chair the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2006-2011) during the 2008 financial crisis. **In Australia, "Sheila" is informal slang for "woman" (since 1832)**.
Featured throughout American culture.
Sheila reduces to eight — the number of Juneteenth law.