Kaylah
#3,832 for girls in 2025, 38 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 311 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,519since 1964
Kaylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaylah has never cracked the top 700 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 | #3,832 | 38 |
| 2024 | #4,039 | 36 |
| 2023 | #3,476 | 45 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 65 |
| 2019 | #2,428 | 73 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 |
| 2017 | #2,268 | 82 |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 |
| 2015 | #1,655 | 129 |
| 2014 | #1,590 | 135 |
| 2013 | #1,254 | 190 |
| 2012 | #1,237 | 196 |
| 2011 | #1,210 | 198 |
| 2010 | #1,035 | 241 |
| 2009 | #1,068 | 239 |
| 2008 | #970 | 276 |
| 2007 | #937 | 288 |
| 2006 | #961 | 272 |
| 2005 | #828 | 309 |
| 2004 | #878 | 280 |
| 2003 | #803 | 308 |
| 2002 | #848 | 272 |
| 2001 | #789 | 299 |
| 2000 | #785 | 292 |
| 1999 | #726 | 311 |
| 1998 | #815 | 261 |
| 1997 | #865 | 236 |
| 1996 | #923 | 212 |
| 1995 | #1,042 | 173 |
| 1994 | #1,191 | 148 |
| 1993 | #1,352 | 122 |
| 1992 | #1,474 | 107 |
| 1991 | #1,564 | 98 |
| 1990 | #1,769 | 82 |
| 1989 | #1,873 | 70 |
| 1988 | #1,952 | 62 |
| 1987 | #2,398 | 43 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaylah! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaylah is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#632 · 1 in 3,012
- Florida#708 · 1 in 3,981
- Arizona#803 · 1 in 3,872
- California#856 · 1 in 5,227
- Georgia#888 · 1 in 4,731
Best ever in a state: #162 in Hawaii, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #632 | 8 | 1 in 3,012 |
| Florida | #708 | 20 | 1 in 3,981 |
| Arizona | #803 | 8 | 1 in 3,872 |
| California | #856 | 40 | 1 in 5,227 |
| Georgia | #888 | 10 | 1 in 4,731 |
| Illinois | #918 | 11 | 1 in 5,341 |
| Texas | #1,020 | 25 | 1 in 6,333 |
| Michigan | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 6,862 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,102 | 7 | 1 in 7,536 |
| Virginia | #1,158 | 5 | 1 in 7,277 |
| New Jersey | #1,170 | 5 | 1 in 7,303 |
| New York | #1,283 | 11 | 1 in 8,388 |
| North Carolina | #1,362 | 5 | 1 in 8,791 |
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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 Kaylah
- 207 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #3,832)
- 1,235 spots since 2020 (#2,597 → #3,832)
- 2,177 spots since 2015 (#1,655 → #3,832)
- Biggest jump: 119 spots in 1996 (#1,042 → #923)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 2006 (#828 → #961)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1999 at #726 (311 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1996–2008
- Highest: 1 in 5,704 girls born in 1999 were named Kaylah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,297 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.5% of all girls named Kaylah (2,835) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 5 | #6,767 (1964) | #6,767 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 237 | #1,873 (1989) | #4,587 |
| 1990s | 1,750 | #726 (1999) | #1,172 |
| 2000s | 2,835 | #785 (2000) | #887 |
| 2010s | 1,407 | #1,035 (2010) | #1,732 |
| 2020s | 285 | #2,597 (2020) | #3,387 |
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.
Kaylah in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 8,985 of them was named Kaylah, which outranked 93.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,231Kataleya197
- #1,231Rilynn197
- #1,231Shaniya197
- #1,237Kaylah196
- #1,237Annaliese196
- #1,237Calista196
- #1,237Emme196
- #1,243Aubriella195
- #1,243Batsheva195
- #1,243Kaidence195
Tied with 5 names at #1,237; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.