Keilah
Keilah was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,496 among girls’ names; 1,602 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Keilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keilah?
#4,496 among girls’ names, 2025
Keilah rose from #5,215 in 2015 to #4,496 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 19.3 per million.
66 babies in 2005, the peak
Keilah peaked in 2005, when 66 girls were given it, #2,585 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,496 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,521 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,695 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,236 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,105 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,064 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,212 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,077 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,531 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,378 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,215 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,809 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,122 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,556 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,198 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,443 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,068 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,743 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,840 | 33.3 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,242 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,585 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,044 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,974 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,564 | 33.9 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,590 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,094 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,071 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,904 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,316 | 33.3 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,731 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,532 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,653 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,851 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,102 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,115 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,976 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,406 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,526 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,190 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,993 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,826 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,513 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,997 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,777 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,733 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,696 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,614 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,037 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,567 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,616 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keilah, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,602 Americans ever recorded as Keilah. The median Keilah alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,297 people named Keilah (1,280 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,441 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 806 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 364 |
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 Keilah born?
The states with the most babies named Keilah are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,325 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,566 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,328 | 0.6× |
Where Keilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keilah is most over-represented in California: since 1976 it was given 1.1 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 Keilah 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 Keilah?
Keilah is a less common spelling of Keila: SSA has recorded 1,602 Keilah and 7,424 Keila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,729 babies since 1880, Keilah is the fourth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 725 babies (4.3%), again the fourth most given.
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 Keilah
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 Keilah and names like it
- Compare Keilah and KeilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeilah peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keilah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Keilah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keilah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.