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Kaylah

Kaylah is a girl's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 726th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,832nd. About 6,400 Kaylahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kaylah

By the numbers

Total US births
6,519
Estimated living today
6,400
Median age today
21
Peak year
1999
Best rank
726th
Rank in 2025
3,832nd
First recorded
1964

How old the living Kaylahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,519 babies given the name since 1964, about 6,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 Kaylah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kaylah is most concentrated in Maryland (2.9×), Florida (2.6×), California (2.0×), Georgia (1.7×).

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

Names of 1999

The most popular girls’ names the year Kaylah peaked:

All the names of 1999

Kaylah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kaylah 331 1,150th
France girls Kaylah 315 1,167th
Scotland girls Kaylah 83 334th
Ireland girls Kaylah 61 373rd
Belgium girls Kaylah 6 1,191st
Northern Ireland girls Kaylah 3 377th

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.

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Kaylah 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.