Meaning not yet researched.
Keyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 331 in 2025. Its best rank was #683 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #683 in 2016; #821 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#821 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #683.
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Keyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 331 girls in 2025. Peak: #683 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 428 (2016).
In 2025, 331 US girls were named Keyla, making it the 821st most common girls’ name of the year, down 19 places from #802 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 351 girls named Keyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #683, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 428. For comparison, it was #809 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keyla in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 9,881 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,582 babies named Keyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,374 US girls were named Keyla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 428. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,856 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keyla ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #459 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyla (43,703 babies since 1880), Keila (7,424 babies since 1880), Kylah (6,281 babies since 1880) and Keilah (1,602 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keelah, Kieayla and Keyilah 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: Keelah (28), Kieayla (18), Keyilah (11), Kehila (7), Kiella (6), Kealah (5).
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 Keyla 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 11 | #459 | #888 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #489 | — |
| Maryland | 10 | #529 | — |
| New York | 29 | #577 | #628 |
| California | 55 | #588 | #514 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #597 | #447 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #622 | #1,329 |
| Florida | 27 | #639 | #1,020 |
| Virginia | 11 | #684 | #897 |
| Texas | 42 | #718 | #416 |
| Colorado | 7 | #747 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #826 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #871 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #967 | #892 |
| Washington | 6 | #987 | #1,208 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,033 | #758 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,062 | #1,544 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,084 | #1,112 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 331 | #821 | — | — |
| 2024 | 351 | #802 | — | — |
| 2023 | 303 | #890 | — | — |
| 2022 | 310 | #900 | — | — |
| 2021 | 266 | #977 | — | — |
| 2020 | 326 | #838 | — | — |
| 2019 | 357 | #777 | — | — |
| 2018 | 355 | #769 | — | — |
| 2017 | 347 | #792 | — | — |
| 2016 | 428 | #683 | — | — |
| 2015 | 348 | #809 | — | — |
| 2014 | 313 | #875 | — | — |
| 2013 | 334 | #809 | — | — |
| 2012 | 314 | #850 | — | — |
| 2011 | 366 | #753 | — | — |
| 2010 | 420 | #684 | — | — |
| 2009 | 359 | #791 | — | — |
| 2008 | 378 | #777 | — | — |
| 2007 | 327 | #859 | — | — |
| 2006 | 320 | #841 | — | — |
| 2005 | 284 | #890 | — | — |
| 2004 | 266 | #909 | — | — |
| 2003 | 243 | #962 | — | — |
| 2002 | 269 | #858 | — | — |
| 2001 | 206 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1999 | 156 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1998 | 150 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,730 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,684 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,492 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,260 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,198 | — | — |
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).