Caila
#7,560 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caila has been given to 1,276 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #7,560 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 66 recorded.
Babies named Caila, 2025
1 in 237,000
Caila over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Caila?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,560
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caila sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cailas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caila was born before 2000 — so the typical Caila is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 37.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,276
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (479).
Is Caila 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
- +482
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,190
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +988
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 21.2%
- Peak was 1999 (66)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Caila
Caila is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 13.9% against Caila's 0.05%.
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 Caila is used
Across 1910–2025, Caila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 427,099 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Louisiana1 in —
- 6Massachusetts1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8New York1 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. Caila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Caila around the world
Where Caila 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 & Wales2006–2024#5,892in 2024
- Scotland2008–2009#783in 2009
- Northern Ireland2009–2017#432in 2017
- Ireland2009–2009#893in 2009
- France2010–2014#6,304in 2014
- Canada1991–2019#2,941in 2019
- South Australia1986–2002#475in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Caila by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caila
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caila
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.