Kayal
#14,052 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kayal has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #14,052 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Kayal, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kayal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kayal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,052
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kayal 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kayals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayal was born before 2016 — so the typical Kayal is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 59.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 161
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Kayal 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,150
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,561
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.60×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 2017 (15)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kayal
Kayal is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 38.4% against Kayal's 0.02%.
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 Kayal is used
Across 1910–2025, Kayal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Kayal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kayal around the world
Where Kayal 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 & Wales2003–2025#4,201in 2025
- France2021–2025#4,785in 2025
- Canada2017–2023#2,672in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kayal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kayal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kayal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.