Cayla
Cayla was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,577 among girls’ names; 10,853 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,700 Americans named Cayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayla?
#4,577 among girls’ names, 2025
Cayla fell from #1,743 in 2015 to #4,577 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.2 to 18.7 per million.
469 babies in 1999, the peak
Cayla peaked in 1999, when 469 girls were given it, #538 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,577 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,834 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,394 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,715 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,176 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,030 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,053 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,389 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,551 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,002 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,743 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 163 | #1,404 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 213 | #1,154 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 195 | #1,230 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 220 | #1,120 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 283 | #942 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,022 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 234 | #1,107 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 300 | #888 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 306 | #833 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 331 | #782 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 351 | #727 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 385 | #661 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 421 | #599 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 425 | #596 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 469 | #538 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 439 | #558 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 420 | #555 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 438 | #535 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 456 | #527 | 0.26 |
| 1994 | 400 | #574 | 0.22 |
| 1993 | 433 | #546 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 410 | #568 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 463 | #509 | 0.25 |
| 1990 | 431 | #549 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 377 | #579 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 324 | #618 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 290 | #648 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,035 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 88 | #1,432 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,514 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 93 | #1,304 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,624 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,610 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,369 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,653 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,461 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,894 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,330 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,887 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayla, and how old are they?
10,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,853 Americans ever recorded as Cayla. The median Cayla alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 9,718 people named Cayla (9,697 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 975 |
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).
Where are babies named Cayla born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,548 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,944 | 1.4× |
Where Cayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cayla is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1956 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Cayla?
Cayla is a less common spelling of Kayla: SSA has recorded 10,853 Cayla and 347,144 Kayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 427,492 babies since 1880, Cayla is the fourth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 1,664 babies (1.8%), 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 Cayla
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 Cayla and names like it
- Compare Cayla and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCayla peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayla since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Cayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.