Kaylah
Kaylah was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,866 among girls’ names; 6,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,440 Americans named Kaylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaylah?
#3,866 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylah fell from #1,662 in 2015 to #3,866 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.3 to 23.6 per million.
311 babies in 1999, the peak
Kaylah peaked in 1999, when 311 girls were given it, #725 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,866 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,075 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,495 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,250 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,185 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,611 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,443 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,598 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,276 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,061 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | #1,662 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 190 | #1,257 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 196 | #1,240 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,213 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,039 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 239 | #1,071 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 276 | #972 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 288 | #938 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 272 | #963 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 309 | #829 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 280 | #879 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 308 | #804 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 272 | #848 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 299 | #791 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 292 | #786 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 311 | #725 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 261 | #816 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 236 | #866 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 212 | #923 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 173 | #1,040 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,192 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 122 | #1,354 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,476 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,563 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,769 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,880 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,956 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,406 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,839 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,957 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,353 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,284 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,248 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylah, and how old are they?
6,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,519 Americans ever recorded as Kaylah. The median Kaylah alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,273 people named Kaylah (5,264 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
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 Kaylah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,616 | 1.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,937 | 1.1× |
Where Kaylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylah is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1964 it was given 1.7 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 Kaylah 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 Kaylah?
Kaylah is a less common spelling of Kayla: SSA has recorded 6,519 Kaylah and 347,144 Kayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 558,132 babies since 1880, Kaylah is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 2,402 babies (1.6%), the sixth 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 Kaylah
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 Kaylah and names like it
- Compare Kaylah and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaylah peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kaylah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.