In 2025, 8 US girls were named Xaela, making it the 11,875th most common girls’ name of the year, down 803 places from #11,072 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Xaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #10,214, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 10. For comparison, it was #18,978 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xaela in 7 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2015 with 5 babies. In all, 51 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 41 babies named Xaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 46 US girls were named Xaela; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.