Meaning not yet researched.
Keilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,319 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,319 in 1997; #4,497 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,497 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #2,319.
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Keilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,319 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 66 (2005).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Keilah, making it the 4,497th most common girls’ name of the year, up 26 places from #4,523 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 31 girls named Keilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,319, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 66, in 2005. For comparison, it was #5,217 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keilah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 1,602 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 525 babies named Keilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 264 US girls were named Keilah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Keyla (9,881 babies since 1880), Keila (7,424 babies since 1880) and Kylah (6,281 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 Keilah 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 | 31 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,698 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,110 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,068 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,081 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,533 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,379 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,217 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,124 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,048 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,981 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,412 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,998 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,828 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,515 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,998 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,780 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,735 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,697 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,616 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,039 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,569 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,618 | — | — |
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).