Kiela — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kiela

The Social Security Administration has registered 277 babies named Kiela between 1970 and 2014, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kiela currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kiela performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 80 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kiela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 9 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kiela in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kiela 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 277 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.