Shakeela as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Shakeela

What is the meaning of the name Shakeela ?

The baby name Shakeela is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced sha-KEE-lah.

Shakeela is Arabic in Origin.

Shakeela is an English transliteration of Arabic Shakīla, the feminine form of shakīl, an adjective on the faʿīl pattern from the Semitic root š-k-l. In Classical Arabic, shakl denotes form, shape, figure, or outward configuration; shakīl describes something well formed or comely. The feminine ending -a gives the personal-name form its usual sense: well-formed, beautiful.

The name is most visible in Muslim naming traditions, especially in South Asia, where Arabic names entered Urdu, Hindi, and other languages through religious learning and Persianate literary culture. Shakila is the leaner scholarly transliteration, while Shakeela reflects an English spelling that marks the long ī vowel with ee; Shakilah and Shakeelah also occur. In the United States, Social Security data record Shakeela mainly from the late twentieth century, with its small peak in the early 1990s, reflecting diaspora and African American Muslim usage rather than broad national fashion.