Keila
Keila was given to 136 girls in 2025, #1,551 among girls’ names; 7,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,290 Americans named Keila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keila mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keila is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keila?
#1,551 among girls’ names, 2025
Keila fell from #1,395 in 2015 to #1,551 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 94.7 to 84.6 per million.
239 babies in 2006, the peak
Keila peaked in 2006, when 239 girls were given it, #1,066 among girls’ names. The 136 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,551 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,040 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,310 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,279 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,936 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,664 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 169 | #1,395 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,331 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 200 | #1,199 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,370 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 193 | #1,238 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 187 | #1,277 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 225 | #1,125 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,092 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 230 | #1,126 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 239 | #1,066 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 232 | #1,036 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 220 | #1,053 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 210 | #1,065 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 218 | #1,004 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 217 | #990 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 183 | #1,117 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 192 | #1,053 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,080 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 159 | #1,161 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 162 | #1,118 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 161 | #1,101 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 154 | #1,155 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,399 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 157 | #1,124 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 155 | #1,142 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 141 | #1,201 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 118 | #1,320 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 114 | #1,281 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,513 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,684 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,574 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,759 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,763 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,995 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,203 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,598 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,169 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,765 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,920 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,584 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,656 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,632 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,817 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,689 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,387 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,350 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,319 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,532 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,354 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,526 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,645 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keila, and how old are they?
7,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,424 Americans ever recorded as Keila. The median Keila alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 8,338 people named Keila (8,293 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 90 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 487 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,750 |
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 Keila born?
The states with the most babies named Keila are Texas, California and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,138 | 1.7× |
| California | 19 | #1,297 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,149 | 1.1× |
| New York | 10 | #1,371 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #590 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,461 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #920 | 0.0× |
Where Keila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keila is most over-represented in Texas: since 1956 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 Keila 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 673,691 babies since 1880, Keila is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 136 of their 1,152 babies (12%), the fourth 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 Keila
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 Keila and names like it
- Compare Keila and KellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeila peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keila since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Keila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.