Definition of "Sheila"

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.

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

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,

1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91

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.

2008, Helen Walsh, Once Upon a Time in England