Kaila
Kaila was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,133 among girls’ names; 14,556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,300 Americans named Kaila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaila mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaila is “a female given name.”
From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaila?
#2,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaila fell from #1,558 in 2015 to #2,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 79.0 to 54.8 per million.
698 babies in 1991, the peak
Kaila peaked in 1991, when 698 girls were given it, #369 among girls’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,133 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,740 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,897 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,810 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,796 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,800 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 137 | #1,566 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,652 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,618 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,429 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,558 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,285 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 198 | #1,228 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,145 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 246 | #1,019 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 252 | #1,033 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 325 | #855 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 392 | #745 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 356 | #774 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 379 | #721 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 431 | #633 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 488 | #572 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 491 | #554 | 0.27 |
| 2001 | 508 | #527 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 601 | #462 | 0.33 |
| 1999 | 544 | #479 | 0.31 |
| 1998 | 554 | #466 | 0.31 |
| 1997 | 580 | #439 | 0.33 |
| 1996 | 598 | #427 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 632 | #410 | 0.36 |
| 1994 | 579 | #435 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 593 | #424 | 0.33 |
| 1992 | 586 | #429 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 698 | #369 | 0.37 |
| 1990 | 575 | #435 | 0.30 |
| 1989 | 497 | #477 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 391 | #554 | 0.22 |
| 1987 | 318 | #608 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 177 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 125 | #1,145 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,221 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,203 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,390 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,946 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,658 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,887 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,323 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,048 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,367 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,524 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,676 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,914 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,937 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,578 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,433 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,970 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaila, and how old are they?
14,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 14,556 Americans ever recorded as Kaila. The median Kaila alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 12,533 people named Kaila (12,502 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,756 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 173 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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 Kaila born?
The states with the most babies named Kaila are Texas, California and New York, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,970 | 0.6× |
| California | 10 | #2,017 | 1.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,589 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,015 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,308 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,263 | 1.2× |
| Hawaii | 5 | #191 | 6.5× |
Where Kaila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaila is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1964 it was given 6.5 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 Kaila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 461,104 babies since 1880, Kaila is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 2,232 babies (3.9%), the fifth 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 Kaila
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 Kaila and names like it
- Compare Kaila and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaila peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaila since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kaila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.