Girls' name · since 1996
Kiyla
Kiyla has 285 recorded births since 1996 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2007 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 285
- total births
- 1996–2022
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 51%
- born in that decade
285 girls have been named Kiyla since 1996, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kiyla has 285 recorded births among girls since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2022.
- 285 total births
- 1996–2022 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 51% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kiyla's 285 recorded births place it above 77% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kiyla's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kiyla's SSA record in two at 2009 and the more recent half accounts for 41% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 59%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2007 peak of 20, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kiyla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2022
- Peak year (2007)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Kiyla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Kiyla's strongest decade.
144 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Kiyla births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 30
1990s
30 births
- 2000s
2000s
144 births
- 2010s
2010s
96 births
- 2020s 15
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 144 births (51% of all-time use).
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- Kiyla's decade-level peak was the 2000s (144 total births); usage has since declined to 15 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kiyla: Baby Name Since 1996 - 285 Births, Peak 2007." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kiyla. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kiyla draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.