Kaila

Where Kaila comes from

From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kaila
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #3,879 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #369
    698 babies named Kaila — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1998
    Kaila Charles born
    American basketball player
  4. 2003
    Kaila Kuhn born
    American freestyle skier
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #855.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Kaila Kuhn · American freestyle skier, born 2003
  • Kaila Charles · American basketball player, born 1998
  • Kaila Yu · American singer-songwriter, born 1979
  • Kaila Austin · American artist

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.