Meaning not yet researched.
Kaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #648 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #648 in 1996; #6,215 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,215 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #648.
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Kaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #648 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 345 (1996).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Kaela, making it the 6,215th most common girls’ name of the year, down 849 places from #5,366 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 24 girls named Kaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #648, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 345. For comparison, it was #4,446 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaela in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 7 babies. In all, 6,358 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,847 babies named Kaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 246 US girls were named Kaela; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 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), Cayla (10,853 babies since 1880) and Kala (7,772 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kaela 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 | 19 | #6,215 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,366 | — | — |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,093 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,813 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,190 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,070 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,889 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,392 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 2007 | 168 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2006 | 166 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2005 | 172 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 2004 | 196 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 2003 | 226 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 2002 | 240 | #934 | — | — |
| 2001 | 265 | #861 | — | — |
| 2000 | 254 | #867 | — | — |
| 1999 | 323 | #700 | — | — |
| 1998 | 304 | #727 | — | — |
| 1997 | 335 | #657 | — | — |
| 1996 | 345 | #648 | — | — |
| 1995 | 299 | #703 | — | — |
| 1994 | 258 | #793 | — | — |
| 1993 | 235 | #839 | — | — |
| 1992 | 242 | #829 | — | — |
| 1991 | 258 | #794 | — | — |
| 1990 | 248 | #808 | — | — |
| 1989 | 252 | #771 | — | — |
| 1988 | 192 | #903 | — | — |
| 1987 | 182 | #915 | — | — |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,543 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,477 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,449 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,894 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,893 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,204 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,975 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,215 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,578 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,705 | — | — |
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).