Kyla
Kyla was given to 512 girls in 2025, #580 among girls’ names; 43,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,000 Americans named Kyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kyla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kyla is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern invention that can be explained as a feminine form of Kyle with -a.
/kaɪlə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kyla?
#580 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyla fell from #358 in 2015 to #580 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.52 to 0.32 per 1,000.
2,044 babies in 2004, the peak
Kyla peaked in 2004, when 2,044 babies were given it (2,038 girls, #162 among girls’ names). The 512 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 512 | #580 | 0.32 |
| 2024 | 554 | #547 | 0.34 |
| 2023 | 527 | #564 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 546 | #560 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 626 | #498 | 0.38 |
| 2020 | 621 | #492 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 674 | #462 | 0.40 |
| 2018 | 728 | #435 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 807 | #388 | 0.47 |
| 2016 | 889 | #367 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 921 | #358 | 0.52 |
| 2014 | 919 | #356 | 0.51 |
| 2013 | 1,026 | #317 | 0.58 |
| 2012 | 1,115 | #284 | 0.63 |
| 2011 | 1,111 | #286 | 0.63 |
| 2010 | 1,284 | #253 | 0.72 |
| 2009 | 1,248 | #263 | 0.68 |
| 2008 | 1,411 | #245 | 0.75 |
| 2007 | 1,528 | #231 | 0.79 |
| 2006 | 1,693 | #204 | 0.89 |
| 2005 | 1,770 | #194 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 2,038 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,023 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 1,705 | #187 | 0.95 |
| 2001 | 1,295 | #247 | 0.72 |
| 2000 | 1,363 | #235 | 0.75 |
| 1999 | 1,245 | #253 | 0.70 |
| 1998 | 1,177 | #265 | 0.67 |
| 1997 | 1,116 | #260 | 0.64 |
| 1996 | 997 | #290 | 0.57 |
| 1995 | 625 | #411 | 0.36 |
| 1994 | 626 | #401 | 0.35 |
| 1993 | 638 | #396 | 0.35 |
| 1992 | 701 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 1991 | 645 | #397 | 0.34 |
| 1990 | 596 | #428 | 0.31 |
| 1989 | 580 | #428 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 546 | #426 | 0.31 |
| 1987 | 480 | #460 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 371 | #547 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 336 | #581 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 369 | #523 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 351 | #535 | 0.21 |
| 1982 | 371 | #528 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 360 | #528 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 303 | #606 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 336 | #553 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 195 | #782 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 173 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 166 | #833 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,104 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 142 | #898 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 97 | #1,138 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 106 | #1,079 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 106 | #1,115 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 97 | #1,186 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,489 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,425 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 72 | #1,274 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,394 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,358 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,551 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,555 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,075 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,137 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,154 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,643 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,710 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyla has been given almost only to girls: 29 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyla, and how old are they?
43,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 43,703 Americans ever recorded as Kyla. The median Kyla alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 36,384 people named Kyla (36,273 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39,919 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 372 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,290 |
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 Kyla born?
The states with the most babies named Kyla are California, Texas and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | #611 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 41 | #734 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 39 | #476 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #433 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 23 | #498 | 1.0× |
| New York | 22 | #746 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 22 | #494 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #500 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 19 | #423 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #518 | 0.7× |
Where Kyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kyla is most over-represented in Montana: since 1940 it was given 1.6 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 Kyla 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 229,831 babies since 1880, Kyla is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 512 of their 2,467 babies (21%), the second 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 Kyla
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 Kyla and names like it
- Compare Kyla and KylieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKyla peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyla since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kyla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Kyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.