Name Awesome

Cayla

#4,577 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kayla

Cayla has been given to 10,853 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #4,577 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 469 recorded.

Babies named Cayla, 2025

1 in 111,000

Cayla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cayla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kayla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cayla means

Cayla is a variant of Kayla.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kayla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,853 girls were recorded with the name Cayla between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 469 in 1999; its best national rank was #509 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,030 in 2020 to #4,577 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,743 in 2015 to #4,577 in 2025.

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.

How common is Cayla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,577
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cayla 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 2025 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cayla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cayla was born before 1998 — so the typical Cayla is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,853
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (4,359).

Is Cayla 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
−743
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,547
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,834
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.4%
Peak was 1999 (469)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#509
1991

Spellings of Cayla

Cayla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 14.3% against Cayla's 0.45%.

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 Cayla is used

Across 2016–2025, Cayla was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 32,556 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3Nevada1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Cayla around the world

Where Cayla 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
    1996–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2003–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2020
    #333
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2005–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    2008–2025
    #5,815
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2010
    #521
    in 2010

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.

Notable people named Cayla

People whose public names include Cayla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cayla in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cayla. Linked forms have their own page here.

CayCayaKailaKayla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cayla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,577
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,547
Best rank ever
#509
1991
Peak year
1999
469 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,853
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Cayla

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

CayleeLeylaKeylaSkylaShylaTwylaTaylaCaylinZaylaNaylaGaylaCaydenAnylaCaylieJaylaMylaDaylaNylaSheylaCayleyMckaylaIylaShaylaMayla

Names with a curve like Cayla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cayla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KarliKarlyKaleyKalynTiannaAlexandreaYesseniaAllyssaKatelinBreanaCarleyKalie

Sibling names for Cayla

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

Explore around Cayla

Top names of 1999, Cayla's peak yearThe 1990s in fullOther names that peaked in 1991Girls' names starting with C