Meaning not yet researched.
Cayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #509 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #509 in 1991; #4,578 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,578 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #509.
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Cayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #509 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 469 (1999).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Cayla, making it the 4,578th most common girls’ name of the year, down 744 places from #3,834 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 39 girls named Cayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #509, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 469, in 1999. For comparison, it was #1,743 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cayla in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 7 babies. In all, 10,853 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,359 babies named Cayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 541 US girls were named Cayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayla (347,144 babies since 1880), Kaila (14,556 babies since 1880), Kala (7,772 babies since 1880) and Kaylah (6,519 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Calah and Callah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Calah (556), Callah (45).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cayla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,180 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2013 | 163 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 2012 | 213 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 2011 | 195 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2010 | 220 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2009 | 283 | #942 | — | — |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 2007 | 234 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 2006 | 300 | #888 | — | — |
| 2005 | 306 | #833 | — | — |
| 2004 | 331 | #782 | — | — |
| 2003 | 351 | #727 | — | — |
| 2002 | 385 | #661 | — | — |
| 2001 | 421 | #599 | — | — |
| 2000 | 425 | #596 | — | — |
| 1999 | 469 | #538 | — | — |
| 1998 | 439 | #558 | — | — |
| 1997 | 420 | #555 | — | — |
| 1996 | 438 | #535 | — | — |
| 1995 | 456 | #527 | — | — |
| 1994 | 400 | #574 | — | — |
| 1993 | 433 | #546 | — | — |
| 1992 | 410 | #568 | — | — |
| 1991 | 463 | #509 | — | — |
| 1990 | 431 | #550 | — | — |
| 1989 | 377 | #580 | — | — |
| 1988 | 324 | #618 | — | — |
| 1987 | 290 | #648 | — | — |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1985 | 88 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1983 | 93 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,611 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,370 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,654 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,462 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,593 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,388 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,331 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,454 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,503 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,175 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,624 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,112 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,698 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,721 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,687 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,888 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).