Shaila Family History

Shaila Name Meaning

Americanized form of Czech Šála, Šala, and Slovenian or Croatian Šala (see Sala ).

Albanian (mainly Kosovo): from the name of the northern Albanian Shala tribe, originating from the Shalë (definite form Shala) region in northern Albania. Shala (probably also in the sense 3 below) is the fourth or fifth most common surname in Kosovo.

Albanian: probably also a metonymic occupational name from shalë (definite form shala) ‘saddle’.

Similar surnames:

Shaila,

Sala

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