Kayla
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 2,108 babies a year in the US.
How Kayla has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #115 |
| 2016 | #129 |
| 2017 | #138 |
| 2018 | #149 |
| 2019 | #182 |
| 2020 | #217 |
| 2021 | #255 |
| 2022 | #279 |
| 2023 | #324 |
| 2024 | #336 |
| 2025 | #364 |
Kayla by the numbers
In 2025, 110 babies in England and Wales were named Kayla. In the US, 2,108 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 18,542 babies in 1991, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 1990, about 1 in 120 American girls born that year was called Kayla.
What we can tell you about Kayla
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kayla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kylanarrow strait; form of Kyle802 in the US (2017)
- Karlafree woman; a form of Carla552 in the US (2017)
- Kayawater296 in the US (2017)
- Kailastylish; a variant of Kayla133 in the US (2017)
- Kamylaperfect, complete; a respelling of Kamila55 in the US (2017)
- Kaylenarrow strait or channel; a modern respelling of Kyle43 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Kayla
Names that are said the same way as Kayla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Kayla
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