Kayla
Kayla reached its high-water mark in 1991 at number 12, and has been recorded 347,144 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 364th. About 341,000 Kaylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kayla boys named Kayla
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 347,144
- Estimated living today
- 341,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 12th
- Rank in 2025
- 364th
- First recorded
- 1933
- Girls / boys
- 346,570 / 574
How old the living Kaylas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 347,144 babies given the name since 1933, about 341,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 49,000 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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.
Where the name comes from
A modern invention possibly based on Kay or Michaela; possibly formed on the pattern of Layla.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kaylas
- Kayla Ewell (born 1985)American actress
- Kayla Barron (born 1987)American astronaut
- Kayla Harrison (born 1990)American Olympic judoka and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Kayla Day (born 1999)American female tennis player
- Kayla Mueller (1988–2015)American aid worker and ISIS captive
- Kayla Sanchez (born 2001)Filipino-Canadian swimmer
- Kayla Banwarth (born 1989)American volleyball player and coach
- Kayla McBride (born 1992)American basketball player
People named Kayla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kayla is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kayla is most concentrated in Nevada (1.9×), Florida (1.6×), Alaska (1.5×), Hawaii (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Kayla peaked:
Kayla elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kayla | 6,651 | 98th |
| France girls | Kayla +1 spelling | 4,370 | 138th |
| New Zealand girls | Kayla | 2,806 | 18th |
| Ireland girls | Kayla | 2,609 | 21st |
| Scotland girls | Kayla | 2,215 | 20th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kayla | 586 | 40th |
| Switzerland girls | Kayla | 576 | 207th |
| Belgium girls | Kayla | 498 | 273rd |
| Italy girls | Kayla | 275 | — |
| Poland girls | Kayla | 136 birth registrations | 319th |
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.
Kayla: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Kayla | 296 | 0.024% | 230th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Kayla | 255 | 0.059% | 84th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Kayla | 24 | 0.037% | 51st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Kayla | 1 | 0.027% | 5th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Kayla is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.07% of children were given it – 114 of them.
Kayla: rank by region
In 2025, Kayla was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kayla | 531 | 9 |
| Wallonia | Kayla | 242 | 11 |
| Brussels | Kayla | 132 | 8 |
In 2023, Kayla was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Kayla | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Kayla was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubuskie | Kayla | 139 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Kayla | 326 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Kayla | 248 | 2 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Kayla | 175 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Kayla appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (132nd), Province of Hainaut (187th) and Province of East Flanders (250th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kayla by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 420th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Kayla among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kayla | 51 | 60 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Kayla lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 602 women called Kayla were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Kayla | 37 | 0.063 | 1,450 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Kayla | 32 | 0.058 | 1,370 |
| Balears, Illes | Kayla | 27 | 0.043 | 1,437 |
| Bizkaia | Kayla | 25 | 0.042 | 1,391 |
| Coruña, A | Kayla | 25 | 0.042 | 1,094 |
| Pontevedra | Kayla | 20 | 0.041 | 1,130 |
Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Kayla against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.