Meaning not yet researched.
Kala: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #462 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #462 in 1989; #9,765 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kala in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,765 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #462.
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Kala: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #462 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 525 (1989).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Kala, making it the 9,765th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,079 places from #8,686 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Kala in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #462, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 525. For comparison, it was #4,653 in 2015 and #4,131 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kala in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 7 babies. In all, 7,772 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,996 babies named Kala.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 180 US girls were named Kala; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 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 Kaylah (6,519 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kalaia 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kalaia (144).
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 Kala 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 | 10 | #9,765 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,686 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,773 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,443 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,072 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,374 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,677 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,266 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,915 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,791 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,602 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,913 | 6 | #11,465 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,460 | 5 | #13,474 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,100 | 6 | #11,814 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 2000 | 153 | #1,272 | 6 | #9,703 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1998 | 190 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1997 | 209 | #949 | — | — |
| 1996 | 234 | #853 | — | — |
| 1995 | 308 | #693 | — | — |
| 1994 | 315 | #674 | — | — |
| 1993 | 351 | #638 | — | — |
| 1992 | 354 | #635 | — | — |
| 1991 | 426 | #551 | — | — |
| 1990 | 438 | #543 | — | — |
| 1989 | 525 | #462 | 8 | #5,926 |
| 1988 | 462 | #491 | — | — |
| 1987 | 381 | #530 | 5 | #7,560 |
| 1986 | 273 | #675 | — | — |
| 1985 | 223 | #766 | — | — |
| 1984 | 199 | #798 | 6 | #5,973 |
| 1983 | 277 | #624 | — | — |
| 1982 | 217 | #763 | — | — |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,847 | 8 | #4,355 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,933 | 7 | #4,859 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,011 | 9 | #3,861 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,294 | 6 | #5,123 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,041 | 7 | #4,394 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,245 | 6 | #4,801 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,631 | 7 | #4,205 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,981 | — | — |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,118 | — | — |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,119 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,128 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,893 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,998 | — | — |
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).