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Cadhla

Girls' name

Beautiful

Cadhla has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Cadhla, 2022

1 in 677,000

Cadhla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cadhla: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cadhla means

Cadhla means “beautiful”, associated with cadhla.

Origin, language, and formation

Cadhla is used in Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kyla.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Irish, Cadhla is pronounced [ˈkəi̯lˠə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Cadhla between 2010 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2021; its best national rank was #8,568 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cadhla?

Cadhla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cadhla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cadhla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cadhlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cadhla was born before 2014 — so the typical Cadhla is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Cadhla rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (12)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
58.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,568
2021

Spellings of Cadhla

Cadhla is not the most common spelling — Carla is, with 47.4% against Cadhla's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cadhla is used

Across 1910–2025, Cadhla was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cadhla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cadhla around the world

Where Cadhla ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2003–2025
    #77
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1994–2025
    #89
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Cadhla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,568
2021
Peak year
2021
12 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cadhla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CadejaCadiaCadeshaCaddieCadedraLaihlaKayhlaAshlaCadijahCadinCadesiaSahlaCadeLeihlaCadinceCadenseNaihlaCadejahCadrianCadeyMicahlaNihlaCadeshiaLeahla

Sibling names for Cadhla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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