Caila
Caila was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,560 among girls’ names; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Caila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caila?
#7,560 among girls’ names, 2025
Caila rose from #8,548 in 2015 to #7,560 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 8.7 per million.
66 babies in 1999, the peak
Caila peaked in 1999, when 66 girls were given it, #2,255 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,560 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,042 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,717 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,029 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,325 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,370 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,682 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,460 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,827 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,550 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,548 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,132 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,784 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,382 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,264 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,640 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,120 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,165 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,831 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,175 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,958 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,269 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,296 | 24.1 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,935 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,374 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,861 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,255 | 37.2 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,616 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,701 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,283 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,843 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,590 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,773 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,979 | 21.2 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,658 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,854 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,255 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,398 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,177 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,465 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,716 | 7.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caila, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,276 Americans ever recorded as Caila. The median Caila alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,056 people named Caila (1,053 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 431 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 227 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Caila?
Caila is a less common spelling of Kayla: SSA has recorded 1,276 Caila and 347,144 Kayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 416,221 babies since 1880, Caila is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 1,557 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caila and names like it
- Compare Caila and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCaila peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caila since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Caila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.