Cayla
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 463 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,853since 1956
Cayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Cayla has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 |
| 2022 | #3,703 | 41 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 |
| 2018 | #2,387 | 76 |
| 2017 | #2,546 | 69 |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 |
| 2015 | #1,743 | 120 |
| 2014 | #1,446 | 157 |
| 2013 | #1,403 | 163 |
| 2012 | #1,153 | 213 |
| 2011 | #1,229 | 195 |
| 2010 | #1,120 | 220 |
| 2009 | #942 | 283 |
| 2008 | #1,022 | 256 |
| 2007 | #1,105 | 234 |
| 2006 | #887 | 300 |
| 2005 | #832 | 306 |
| 2004 | #782 | 331 |
| 2003 | #727 | 351 |
| 2002 | #660 | 385 |
| 2001 | #599 | 421 |
| 2000 | #596 | 425 |
| 1999 | #538 | 469 |
| 1998 | #558 | 439 |
| 1997 | #555 | 420 |
| 1996 | #535 | 438 |
| 1995 | #527 | 456 |
| 1994 | #574 | 400 |
| 1993 | #546 | 433 |
| 1992 | #568 | 410 |
| 1991 | #509 | 463 |
| 1990 | #550 | 431 |
| 1989 | #580 | 377 |
| 1988 | #617 | 324 |
| 1987 | #648 | 290 |
| 1986 | #1,032 | 146 |
| 1985 | #1,429 | 88 |
| 1984 | #1,511 | 75 |
| 1983 | #1,303 | 93 |
| 1982 | #1,621 | 71 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cayla! It came in at #4,837, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cayla is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#309 · 1 in 1,838
- Missouri#312 · 1 in 1,845
- North Carolina#336 · 1 in 1,907
- South Carolina#366 · 1 in 2,013
- Pennsylvania#370 · 1 in 2,331
Best ever in a state: #134 in District of Columbia, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #309 | 16 | 1 in 1,838 |
| Missouri | #312 | 16 | 1 in 1,845 |
| North Carolina | #336 | 21 | 1 in 1,907 |
| South Carolina | #366 | 8 | 1 in 2,013 |
| Pennsylvania | #370 | 25 | 1 in 2,331 |
| Wisconsin | #406 | 10 | 1 in 2,503 |
| Minnesota | #411 | 10 | 1 in 2,497 |
| Arkansas | #412 | 5 | 1 in 2,295 |
| Kentucky | #423 | 7 | 1 in 2,823 |
| Alabama | #424 | 8 | 1 in 2,592 |
| Mississippi | #432 | 5 | 1 in 2,303 |
| Florida | #436 | 27 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Maryland | #448 | 9 | 1 in 2,627 |
| Oklahoma | #448 | 7 | 1 in 2,403 |
| Virginia | #462 | 11 | 1 in 3,023 |
| Connecticut | #464 | 5 | 1 in 3,087 |
| Illinois | #465 | 25 | 1 in 2,797 |
| Georgia | #471 | 14 | 1 in 3,055 |
| Louisiana | #518 | 7 | 1 in 3,091 |
| Colorado | #520 | 7 | 1 in 2,993 |
| Michigan | #543 | 14 | 1 in 3,712 |
| Ohio | #553 | 15 | 1 in 4,122 |
| Indiana | #577 | 8 | 1 in 4,099 |
| New York | #623 | 23 | 1 in 4,391 |
| Washington | #635 | 7 | 1 in 4,090 |
| Texas | #675 | 30 | 1 in 4,663 |
| Massachusetts | #690 | 5 | 1 in 6,360 |
| New Jersey | #855 | 6 | 1 in 6,959 |
| Arizona | #868 | 5 | 1 in 5,615 |
| California | #1,107 | 23 | 1 in 9,689 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cayla
- 724 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #4,546)
- 1,531 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #4,546)
- 2,803 spots since 2015 (#1,743 → #4,546)
- Biggest jump: 384 spots in 1987 (#1,032 → #648)
- Biggest drop: 218 spots in 2007 (#887 → #1,105)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1991 at #509 (463 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1987–2006
- Highest: 1 in 3,782 girls born in 1999 were named Cayla (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #509 in 1991, was only 1 in 4,050 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.2% of all girls named Cayla (4,359) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #4,837 (1956) | #4,837 |
| 1960s | 26 | #6,042 (1967) | #6,647 |
| 1970s | 74 | #4,626 (1979) | #6,735 |
| 1980s | 1,486 | #580 (1989) | #2,063 |
| 1990s | 4,359 | #509 (1991) | #546 |
| 2000s | 3,292 | #596 (2000) | #815 |
| 2010s | 1,365 | #1,120 (2010) | #1,807 |
| 2020s | 244 | #3,015 (2020) | #3,773 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cayla in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 4,145 of them was named Cayla, which outranked 96.6% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).