Keyla
Keyla was given to 331 girls in 2025, #821 among girls’ names; 9,881 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,780 Americans named Keyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keyla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keyla is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keyla?
#821 among girls’ names, 2025
Keyla fell from #809 in 2015 to #821 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.19 to 0.21 per 1,000.
428 babies in 2016, the peak
Keyla peaked in 2016, when 428 girls were given it, #683 among girls’ names. The 331 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 331 | #821 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 351 | #802 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 303 | #890 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 310 | #900 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 266 | #977 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 326 | #838 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 357 | #777 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 355 | #769 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 347 | #792 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 428 | #683 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 348 | #809 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 313 | #875 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 334 | #809 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 314 | #850 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 366 | #753 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 420 | #684 | 0.24 |
| 2009 | 359 | #791 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 378 | #777 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 327 | #859 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 320 | #841 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 284 | #890 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 266 | #909 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 243 | #961 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 269 | #858 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 206 | #1,040 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,065 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 156 | #1,218 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 150 | #1,219 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,207 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,676 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,624 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,840 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,632 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,830 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,008 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,459 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,401 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,041 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,213 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,093 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,455 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,729 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,979 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,972 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,877 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,099 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,938 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,690 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,682 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,750 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,602 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,197 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keyla 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 Keyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keyla, and how old are they?
9,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,881 Americans ever recorded as Keyla. The median Keyla alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 7,927 people named Keyla (7,886 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,000 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 178 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 894 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,340 |
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 Keyla born?
The states with the most babies named Keyla are California, Texas and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 55 | #588 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 42 | #718 | 1.9× |
| New York | 29 | #577 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 27 | #639 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #622 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #489 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #597 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 11 | #684 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 11 | #459 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 10 | #529 | 0.7× |
Where Keyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keyla is most over-represented in Texas: since 1961 it was given 1.9 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 Keyla 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 Keyla?
Keyla is a less common spelling of Kayla: SSA has recorded 9,881 Keyla and 347,144 Kayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,018,490 babies since 1880, Keyla is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 331 of their 1,990 babies (17%), the third 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 Keyla
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 Keyla and names like it
- Compare Keyla and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeyla peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Keyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.