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Cayla

The girl's name Cayla has been in the national records since 1956, with 10,853 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,546th. About 11,000 Caylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Cayla

By the numbers

Total US births
10,853
Estimated living today
11,000
Median age today
27
Peak year
1999
Best rank
538th
Rank in 2025
4,546th
First recorded
1956

How old the living Caylas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 10,853 babies given the name since 1956, about 11,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 6 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Caylas

People named Cayla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Cayla is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cayla is most concentrated in Florida (2.4×), Georgia (2.0×), Tennessee (1.7×), Virginia (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1999

The most popular girls’ names the year Cayla peaked:

All the names of 1999

Cayla elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Cayla 283 1,257th
Scotland girls Cayla 91 300th
France girls Cayla 90 3,571st
Ireland girls Cayla 72 414th
Northern Ireland girls Cayla 26 330th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Cayla against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.