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Kayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 838 in 2025. Its best rank was #11 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #11 in 1996; #364 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#364 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #11.
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Kayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 838 girls in 2025. Peak: #11 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 18,545 (1991).
In 2025, 838 US girls were named Kayla, making it the 364th most common girls’ name of the year, down 28 places from #336 in 2024. That is 97 fewer than the 935 girls named Kayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #11, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18,545, in 1991. For comparison, it was #116 in 2015 and #1,536 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayla in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 6 babies. In all, 347,144 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 156,123 babies named Kayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,519 US girls were named Kayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,471. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,918 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kayla ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #117 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Kay (102,545 babies since 1880), Kayleigh (34,568 babies since 1880) and Kaila (14,556 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kalah, Kahla and Kaelah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kay.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kalah (778), Kahla (679), Kaelah (550), Cala (502), Caela (462), Caylah (405), Kayela (350), Kalla (334), Kalai (318), Kaula (204), Kaylla (197), Kaiyla (165), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 65 | #117 | #48 |
| Maryland | 29 | #178 | #85 |
| New York | 82 | #209 | #56 |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #219 | #110 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #231 | #230 |
| California | 124 | #266 | #63 |
| Florida | 67 | #282 | #94 |
| Indiana | 22 | #325 | #252 |
| Ohio | 32 | #352 | #196 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #364 | #472 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #364 | #79 |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #376 | #119 |
| Texas | 84 | #399 | #105 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #413 | #204 |
| Illinois | 26 | #413 | #112 |
| Virginia | 18 | #447 | #111 |
| Arizona | 15 | #460 | #123 |
| Michigan | 18 | #470 | #160 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #480 | #201 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #542 | #163 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #548 | #273 |
| Washington | 12 | #561 | #139 |
| Nevada | 5 | #565 | #100 |
| Utah | 7 | #570 | #179 |
| Georgia | 18 | #595 | #127 |
| Alabama | 8 | #605 | #224 |
| Missouri | 9 | #612 | #305 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #621 | #136 |
| Iowa | 5 | #625 | #225 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #630 | #265 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 838 | #364 | — | — |
| 2024 | 935 | #336 | — | — |
| 2023 | 952 | #324 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,133 | #280 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,217 | #254 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,340 | #216 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,613 | #182 | 5 | #13,157 |
| 2018 | 1,892 | #149 | 5 | #13,180 |
| 2017 | 2,128 | #138 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,471 | #129 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,740 | #116 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,012 | #101 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,261 | #96 | 7 | #10,212 |
| 2012 | 3,776 | #69 | — | — |
| 2011 | 4,336 | #59 | 5 | #13,359 |
| 2010 | 5,060 | #49 | 8 | #9,250 |
| 2009 | 5,847 | #35 | 6 | #11,742 |
| 2008 | 6,835 | #28 | 9 | #8,666 |
| 2007 | 7,583 | #26 | 14 | #6,104 |
| 2006 | 8,226 | #26 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8,620 | #25 | 20 | #4,395 |
| 2004 | 9,773 | #18 | 40 | #2,672 |
| 2003 | 10,957 | #16 | 23 | #3,788 |
| 2002 | 11,310 | #19 | 14 | #5,270 |
| 2001 | 11,892 | #17 | 17 | #4,590 |
| 2000 | 13,313 | #13 | 17 | #4,485 |
| 1999 | 13,292 | #13 | 24 | #3,322 |
| 1998 | 13,422 | #12 | 16 | #4,303 |
| 1997 | 13,885 | #12 | 14 | #4,575 |
| 1996 | 15,269 | #11 | 22 | #3,254 |
| 1995 | 16,087 | #11 | 20 | #3,375 |
| 1994 | 15,885 | #12 | 22 | #3,173 |
| 1993 | 15,453 | #16 | 24 | #2,905 |
| 1992 | 16,517 | #13 | 34 | #2,234 |
| 1991 | 18,545 | #12 | 35 | #2,118 |
| 1990 | 17,538 | #14 | 19 | #3,242 |
| 1989 | 14,903 | #20 | 47 | #1,669 |
| 1988 | 13,433 | #20 | 46 | #1,585 |
| 1987 | 10,576 | #27 | 17 | #3,019 |
| 1986 | 4,657 | #64 | 14 | #3,353 |
| 1985 | 2,608 | #109 | 16 | #3,019 |
| 1984 | 2,681 | #100 | 8 | #4,775 |
| 1983 | 3,527 | #81 | 6 | #5,875 |
| 1982 | 2,275 | #133 | — | — |
| 1981 | 317 | #583 | — | — |
| 1980 | 314 | #590 | — | — |
| 1979 | 256 | #673 | — | — |
| 1978 | 237 | #672 | — | — |
| 1977 | 226 | #693 | — | — |
| 1976 | 202 | #726 | — | — |
| 1975 | 185 | #766 | — | — |
| 1974 | 180 | #771 | — | — |
| 1973 | 149 | #866 | — | — |
| 1972 | 182 | #764 | — | — |
| 1971 | 167 | #830 | — | — |
| 1970 | 158 | #854 | — | — |
| 1969 | 192 | #730 | — | — |
| 1968 | 139 | #871 | — | — |
| 1967 | 135 | #878 | — | — |
| 1966 | 144 | #832 | — | — |
| 1965 | 147 | #820 | — | — |
| 1964 | 163 | #822 | — | — |
| 1963 | 156 | #837 | — | — |
| 1962 | 166 | #813 | — | — |
| 1961 | 116 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1960 | 130 | #936 | — | — |
| 1959 | 116 | #985 | — | — |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1957 | 101 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1956 | 69 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1954 | 60 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1951 | 51 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,040 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,980 | — | — |
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).