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Keyla vs Keyri

American parents have registered 9,881 Keylas since 1880, against 632 Keyris. Keyla is still ahead, with 331 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keyla against Keyri, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keyla Keyri

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Keyla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Keyla had 91 and Keyri had 13.

Side by side

  Keyla Keyri
Total US births 9,881632
Most in one year 42838
Babies in 2025 33114
Estimated living today 9,800630
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20162007
Best rank 683rd girls4,050th girls
Rank in 2025 821st7,491st
First recorded 19611991
Girls / boys 9,881 / 0632 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keyla and Keyri.