Kailah
#5,477 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kailah has been given to 2,263 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,477 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 99 recorded.
Babies named Kailah, 2025
1 in 144,000
Kailah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kailah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,477
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kailah 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kailah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kailahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kailah was born before 2005 — so the typical Kailah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,263
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (869).
Is Kailah 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
- −1,228
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,903
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,718
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.2%
- Peak was 2002 (99)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kailah
Kailah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 40.7% against Kailah's 0.27%.
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 Kailah is used
Across 1910–2025, Kailah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 119,684 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 50,000
- 2Florida1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Hawaii1 in 100,000
- 5Maryland1 in 100,000
- 6New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 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. Kailah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kailah around the world
Where Kailah 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 & Wales2001–2020#5,493in 2020
- Scotland2012–2021#792in 2021
- France2011–2024#7,619in 2024
- Canada2009–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia1984–2012#563in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kailah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kailah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kailah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kailah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kailah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.