Kaila
#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 698 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,556since 1964
Kaila over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaila has never cracked the top 300 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 | #2,117 | 88 |
| 2024 | #1,732 | 117 |
| 2023 | #1,890 | 105 |
| 2022 | #1,807 | 113 |
| 2021 | #1,791 | 113 |
| 2020 | #1,792 | 110 |
| 2019 | #1,566 | 137 |
| 2018 | #1,650 | 128 |
| 2017 | #1,614 | 134 |
| 2016 | #1,425 | 162 |
| 2015 | #1,554 | 141 |
| 2014 | #1,284 | 186 |
| 2013 | #1,391 | 166 |
| 2012 | #1,227 | 198 |
| 2011 | #1,144 | 214 |
| 2010 | #1,019 | 246 |
| 2009 | #1,032 | 252 |
| 2008 | #855 | 325 |
| 2007 | #743 | 392 |
| 2006 | #773 | 356 |
| 2005 | #721 | 379 |
| 2004 | #633 | 431 |
| 2003 | #572 | 488 |
| 2002 | #554 | 491 |
| 2001 | #525 | 508 |
| 2000 | #462 | 601 |
| 1999 | #478 | 544 |
| 1998 | #465 | 554 |
| 1997 | #438 | 580 |
| 1996 | #427 | 598 |
| 1995 | #410 | 632 |
| 1994 | #435 | 579 |
| 1993 | #424 | 593 |
| 1992 | #429 | 586 |
| 1991 | #369 | 698 |
| 1990 | #436 | 575 |
| 1989 | #477 | 497 |
| 1988 | #554 | 391 |
| 1987 | #607 | 318 |
| 1986 | #909 | 177 |
| 1985 | #1,143 | 125 |
| 1984 | #1,216 | 107 |
| 1983 | #1,200 | 107 |
| 1982 | #1,384 | 88 |
| 1981 | #2,928 | 30 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
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| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaila! It came in at #3,879, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaila is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#77 · 1 in 263
- New Jersey#655 · 1 in 3,266
- Washington#1,071 · 1 in 6,082
- New York#1,111 · 1 in 6,668
- California#1,235 · 1 in 8,612
Best ever in a state: #26 in Hawaii, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #77 | 11 | 1 in 263 |
| New Jersey | #655 | 11 | 1 in 3,266 |
| Washington | #1,071 | 5 | 1 in 6,082 |
| New York | #1,111 | 13 | 1 in 6,668 |
| California | #1,235 | 22 | 1 in 8,612 |
| Ohio | #1,263 | 6 | 1 in 8,504 |
| Florida | #1,453 | 8 | 1 in 10,636 |
| Texas | #1,971 | 10 | 1 in 15,892 |
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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 Kaila
- 385 spots since 2024 (#1,732 → #2,117)
- 325 spots since 2020 (#1,792 → #2,117)
- 563 spots since 2015 (#1,554 → #2,117)
- Biggest jump: 302 spots in 1987 (#909 → #607)
- Biggest drop: 177 spots in 2009 (#855 → #1,032)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1991 at #369 (698 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1986–2008
- Highest: 1 in 2,686 girls born in 1991 were named Kaila (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.8% of all girls named Kaila (5,939) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #3,879 (1964) | #4,545 |
| 1970s | 144 | #2,860 (1979) | #4,563 |
| 1980s | 1,862 | #477 (1989) | #1,403 |
| 1990s | 5,939 | #369 (1991) | #431 |
| 2000s | 4,223 | #462 (2000) | #687 |
| 2010s | 1,712 | #1,019 (2010) | #1,387 |
| 2020s | 646 | #1,732 (2024) | #1,855 |
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.
Kaila in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 13,290 of them was named Kaila, which outranked 90.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,640Suri129
- #1,640Tilly129
- #1,640Yusra129
- #1,650Kaila128
- #1,650Adina128
- #1,650Cori128
- #1,650Keren128
- #1,656Austin127
- #1,656Berklee127
- #1,656Camdyn127
Tied with 5 names at #1,650; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.