Alternative spellings

• Sheela
• Sile (An uncommon Anglicisation of the original Irish Síle.)
• Sheilagh

Quotations

• 1874 William Black, A Princess of Thule, Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 1402170394, page 295

  Were English girls not good enough for him that he must needs come up and take away Sheila Mackenzie, and keep her there in the South.

• 1933 Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall,Faber and Faber 1933, page 91 ("Girls' Names")

  What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star, / And Sylvia like a rustling tree, / And Lola like a melody, / And Flora like a flowery morn, / And Sheila like a field of corn,

• 2008 Helen Walsh, Once Upon a Time in England, ISBN 9781841958682, page 48-49

  He shortened her name to Sheila which, in spite of its primness, she seemed to love. - - - For Susheela - Sheila, as she was now known - this creeping daylight signalled the start, not the end of sleep.