Meaning not yet researched.
Kaila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #369 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #369 in 1991; #2,133 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,133 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #369.
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Kaila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 girls in 2025. Peak: #369 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 698 (1991).
In 2025, 88 US girls were named Kaila, making it the 2,133rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 393 places from #1,740 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 117 girls named Kaila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #369, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 698. For comparison, it was #1,558 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaila in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 12 babies. In all, 14,556 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,939 babies named Kaila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,207 US girls were named Kaila; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,264 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaila ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #191 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayla (347,144 babies since 1880), Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Cayla (10,853 babies since 1880) and Kala (7,772 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cailah, Kailaya and Kaiella 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: Cailah (136), Kailaya (92), Kaiella (26), Kailaia (19).
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 Kaila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 5 | #191 | #96 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,263 | #894 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,308 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,589 | #1,331 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,970 | #2,300 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,015 | #1,082 |
| California | 10 | #2,017 | #1,187 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2019 | 137 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 2015 | 141 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 2012 | 198 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2010 | 246 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 2009 | 252 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2008 | 325 | #855 | — | — |
| 2007 | 392 | #745 | — | — |
| 2006 | 356 | #774 | — | — |
| 2005 | 379 | #721 | — | — |
| 2004 | 431 | #633 | — | — |
| 2003 | 488 | #572 | — | — |
| 2002 | 491 | #554 | — | — |
| 2001 | 508 | #527 | — | — |
| 2000 | 601 | #462 | — | — |
| 1999 | 544 | #479 | — | — |
| 1998 | 554 | #466 | — | — |
| 1997 | 580 | #439 | — | — |
| 1996 | 598 | #427 | — | — |
| 1995 | 632 | #410 | — | — |
| 1994 | 579 | #435 | — | — |
| 1993 | 593 | #424 | — | — |
| 1992 | 586 | #429 | — | — |
| 1991 | 698 | #369 | — | — |
| 1990 | 575 | #436 | — | — |
| 1989 | 497 | #477 | — | — |
| 1988 | 391 | #554 | — | — |
| 1987 | 318 | #608 | — | — |
| 1986 | 177 | #911 | — | — |
| 1985 | 125 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,369 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,525 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,678 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,915 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,579 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,674 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,434 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,971 | — | — |
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).