Meaning not yet researched.
Kyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 512 in 2025. Its best rank was #162 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #162 in 2004; #580 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#580 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #162.
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Kyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 512 girls in 2025. Peak: #162 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 2,038 (2004).
In 2025, 512 US girls were named Kyla, making it the 580th most common girls’ name of the year, down 33 places from #547 in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 554 girls named Kyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #162, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,038. For comparison, it was #358 in 2015 and #5,701 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyla in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 43,703 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 16,085 babies named Kyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,484 US girls were named Kyla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 889. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,139 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyla ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #107 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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). Rarer spellings such as Keela, Kila and Kela 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: Keela (1,070), Kila (936), Kela (901), Keala (881), Keola (612), Kella (458), Kilah (457), Kiyla (285), Kiela (277), Kiala (218), Keylah (100), Kiylah (86), 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.
No nicknames listed for Kyla 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 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 8 | #107 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #367 | #288 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #376 | #543 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #392 | #447 |
| Virginia | 19 | #423 | #403 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #432 | #312 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #433 | #266 |
| Florida | 39 | #476 | #270 |
| Ohio | 22 | #494 | #285 |
| Georgia | 23 | #498 | #324 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #499 | #409 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #500 | #310 |
| Alabama | 10 | #509 | #404 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #513 | #242 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #518 | #333 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #527 | #347 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #568 | #340 |
| Missouri | 10 | #576 | #338 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #580 | #374 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #591 | #354 |
| Indiana | 11 | #596 | #408 |
| California | 52 | #611 | #517 |
| Michigan | 13 | #620 | #279 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #631 | #188 |
| Arizona | 10 | #657 | #401 |
| Texas | 41 | #734 | #503 |
| New York | 22 | #746 | #317 |
| Illinois | 12 | #771 | #371 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #788 | #362 |
| Washington | 7 | #862 | #400 |
| Maryland | 5 | #924 | #676 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 512 | #580 | — | — |
| 2024 | 554 | #547 | — | — |
| 2023 | 527 | #564 | — | — |
| 2022 | 546 | #560 | — | — |
| 2021 | 626 | #498 | — | — |
| 2020 | 621 | #492 | — | — |
| 2019 | 674 | #462 | — | — |
| 2018 | 728 | #435 | — | — |
| 2017 | 807 | #388 | — | — |
| 2016 | 889 | #367 | — | — |
| 2015 | 921 | #358 | — | — |
| 2014 | 919 | #356 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,026 | #317 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,115 | #284 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,111 | #286 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,284 | #253 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,248 | #263 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,411 | #245 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,528 | #231 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,693 | #204 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,770 | #194 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,038 | #162 | 6 | #10,773 |
| 2003 | 2,023 | #165 | 5 | #11,967 |
| 2002 | 1,705 | #187 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,295 | #247 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,363 | #235 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,245 | #253 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,177 | #265 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,116 | #260 | 8 | #6,987 |
| 1996 | 997 | #290 | — | — |
| 1995 | 625 | #411 | — | — |
| 1994 | 626 | #401 | — | — |
| 1993 | 638 | #396 | — | — |
| 1992 | 701 | #367 | 5 | #9,219 |
| 1991 | 645 | #397 | — | — |
| 1990 | 596 | #428 | — | — |
| 1989 | 580 | #428 | — | — |
| 1988 | 546 | #426 | — | — |
| 1987 | 480 | #460 | 5 | #7,626 |
| 1986 | 371 | #547 | — | — |
| 1985 | 336 | #581 | — | — |
| 1984 | 369 | #523 | — | — |
| 1983 | 351 | #535 | — | — |
| 1982 | 371 | #528 | — | — |
| 1981 | 360 | #528 | — | — |
| 1980 | 303 | #606 | — | — |
| 1979 | 336 | #553 | — | — |
| 1978 | 195 | #782 | — | — |
| 1977 | 173 | #852 | — | — |
| 1976 | 166 | #833 | — | — |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1974 | 142 | #898 | — | — |
| 1973 | 97 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1972 | 106 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1971 | 106 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1970 | 97 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1967 | 72 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,407 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,712 | — | — |
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).