Kahla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kahla

The Social Security Administration has registered 679 babies named Kahla between 1961 and 2012, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kahla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 58 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kahla performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 330 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kahla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kahla in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kahla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 679 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.