Keyla
#821 for girls in 2025, 331 births
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 428 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,881since 1961
Keyla over time
Rank among girls' names. Keyla 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 | #821 | 331 |
| 2024 | #801 | 351 |
| 2023 | #887 | 303 |
| 2022 | #899 | 310 |
| 2021 | #975 | 266 |
| 2020 | #838 | 326 |
| 2019 | #776 | 357 |
| 2018 | #767 | 355 |
| 2017 | #791 | 347 |
| 2016 | #683 | 428 |
| 2015 | #808 | 348 |
| 2014 | #873 | 313 |
| 2013 | #808 | 334 |
| 2012 | #849 | 314 |
| 2011 | #752 | 366 |
| 2010 | #683 | 420 |
| 2009 | #791 | 359 |
| 2008 | #776 | 378 |
| 2007 | #859 | 327 |
| 2006 | #838 | 320 |
| 2005 | #889 | 284 |
| 2004 | #908 | 266 |
| 2003 | #959 | 243 |
| 2002 | #856 | 269 |
| 2001 | #1,040 | 206 |
| 2000 | #1,065 | 194 |
| 1999 | #1,215 | 156 |
| 1998 | #1,219 | 150 |
| 1997 | #1,206 | 149 |
| 1996 | #1,669 | 91 |
| 1995 | #1,514 | 103 |
| 1994 | #1,624 | 93 |
| 1993 | #1,841 | 78 |
| 1992 | #1,630 | 93 |
| 1991 | #2,092 | 64 |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 |
| 1989 | #1,998 | 63 |
| 1988 | #1,863 | 66 |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,411 | 24 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keyla! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1967, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Keyla is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#423 · 1 in 1,790
- New Jersey#444 · 1 in 2,116
- Arizona#479 · 1 in 2,148
- Texas#500 · 1 in 2,460
- California#514 · 1 in 2,645
Best ever in a state: #311 in Maryland, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #423 | 13 | 1 in 1,790 |
| New Jersey | #444 | 17 | 1 in 2,116 |
| Arizona | #479 | 14 | 1 in 2,148 |
| Texas | #500 | 65 | 1 in 2,460 |
| California | #514 | 74 | 1 in 2,645 |
| Oklahoma | #549 | 7 | 1 in 2,249 |
| New York | #598 | 29 | 1 in 3,034 |
| Tennessee | #598 | 11 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Massachusetts | #678 | 7 | 1 in 3,600 |
| North Carolina | #734 | 12 | 1 in 3,782 |
| Florida | #876 | 17 | 1 in 5,056 |
| Colorado | #899 | 5 | 1 in 4,525 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 6,172 |
| Washington | #1,106 | 5 | 1 in 6,213 |
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See more about Keyla
- 20 spots since 2024 (#801 → #821)
- 17 spots since 2020 (#838 → #821)
- 13 spots since 2015 (#808 → #821)
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 2002 (#1,040 → #856)
- Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2021 (#838 → #975)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2016 at #683 (428 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,140 girls born in 2016 were named Keyla (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,856 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 36.3% of all girls named Keyla (3,582) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 19 | #5,851 (1961) | #6,024 |
| 1970s | 152 | #2,942 (1978) | #4,489 |
| 1980s | 340 | #1,863 (1988) | #3,097 |
| 1990s | 1,055 | #1,206 (1997) | #1,584 |
| 2000s | 2,846 | #776 (2008) | #898 |
| 2010s | 3,582 | #683 (2016) | #779 |
| 2020s | 1,887 | #801 (2024) | #870 |
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.
Keyla in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 4,975 of them was named Keyla, which outranked 95.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #785Tori350
- #789Annabel348
- #789Estelle348
- #791Keyla347
- #791Adele347
- #791Landry347
- #794Lailah345
- #794Perla345
- #794Rylan345
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.