Kaela
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 345 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,358since 1967
Kaela over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaela has never cracked the top 600 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 | #6,116 | 19 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 |
| 2014 | #3,369 | 47 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 |
| 2012 | #2,901 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,638 | 67 |
| 2010 | #2,538 | 72 |
| 2009 | #2,244 | 87 |
| 2008 | #1,631 | 139 |
| 2007 | #1,415 | 168 |
| 2006 | #1,375 | 166 |
| 2005 | #1,297 | 172 |
| 2004 | #1,152 | 196 |
| 2003 | #1,020 | 226 |
| 2002 | #933 | 240 |
| 2001 | #860 | 265 |
| 2000 | #866 | 254 |
| 1999 | #700 | 323 |
| 1998 | #726 | 304 |
| 1997 | #657 | 335 |
| 1996 | #648 | 345 |
| 1995 | #702 | 299 |
| 1994 | #791 | 258 |
| 1993 | #837 | 235 |
| 1992 | #827 | 242 |
| 1991 | #794 | 258 |
| 1990 | #808 | 248 |
| 1989 | #770 | 252 |
| 1988 | #902 | 192 |
| 1987 | #913 | 182 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 |
| 1985 | #1,632 | 72 |
| 1984 | #1,991 | 51 |
| 1983 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
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| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
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| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaela! It came in at #5,457, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaela is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#395 · 1 in 2,176
- Massachusetts#472 · 1 in 3,190
- Oregon#499 · 1 in 2,740
- New Jersey#518 · 1 in 3,457
- Virginia#519 · 1 in 3,391
Best ever in a state: #183 in New Hampshire, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #395 | 11 | 1 in 2,176 |
| Massachusetts | #472 | 10 | 1 in 3,190 |
| Oregon | #499 | 6 | 1 in 2,740 |
| New Jersey | #518 | 12 | 1 in 3,457 |
| Virginia | #519 | 10 | 1 in 3,391 |
| Tennessee | #523 | 9 | 1 in 3,392 |
| Kentucky | #556 | 5 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Michigan | #576 | 13 | 1 in 3,963 |
| New York | #579 | 27 | 1 in 3,730 |
| Washington | #611 | 8 | 1 in 3,654 |
| North Carolina | #615 | 10 | 1 in 4,209 |
| Georgia | #642 | 10 | 1 in 4,454 |
| Colorado | #653 | 6 | 1 in 3,710 |
| Arizona | #702 | 7 | 1 in 4,173 |
| Pennsylvania | #734 | 10 | 1 in 5,830 |
| Florida | #748 | 14 | 1 in 5,306 |
| California | #790 | 39 | 1 in 5,667 |
| Missouri | #790 | 5 | 1 in 5,938 |
| Indiana | #830 | 5 | 1 in 6,616 |
| Texas | #831 | 24 | 1 in 5,977 |
| Ohio | #937 | 7 | 1 in 8,803 |
| Illinois | #1,288 | 6 | 1 in 11,736 |
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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 Kaela
- 816 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #6,116)
- 33 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #6,116)
- 1,713 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #6,116)
- Biggest jump: 507 spots in 1987 (#1,420 → #913)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 2000 (#700 → #866)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1996 at #648 (345 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1987–2002
- Highest: 1 in 5,081 girls born in 1996 were named Kaela (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.8% of all girls named Kaela (2,847) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,457 (1967) | #5,457 |
| 1970s | 65 | #5,413 (1970) | #7,239 |
| 1980s | 961 | #770 (1989) | #2,415 |
| 1990s | 2,847 | #648 (1996) | #749 |
| 2000s | 1,913 | #860 (2001) | #1,279 |
| 2010s | 434 | #2,538 (2010) | #3,957 |
| 2020s | 131 | #4,114 (2023) | #5,871 |
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.
Kaela in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 5,812 of them was named Kaela, which outranked 95.6% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).