Kyla — #547 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kyla

The Social Security Administration has registered 43,154 babies named Kyla between 1940 and 2024, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kyla currently holds the #547 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 2,038 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kyla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 16,074 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kyla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,829 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kyla in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kyla 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 43,154 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.