Kayla — #336 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 345,723 babies named Kayla between 1933 and 2024, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kayla currently holds the #336 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 18,545 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kayla performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 155,892 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 33,655 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kayla in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kayla 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 345,723 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.