Kaylah
#3,866 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaylah has been given to 6,519 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #3,866 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 311 recorded.
Babies named Kaylah, 2025
1 in 87,200
Kaylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 42,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,866
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaylah 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaylah was born before 2004 — so the typical Kaylah is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6,519
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (2,835).
Is Kaylah 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
- +209
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,255
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,204
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.29×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.2%
- Peak was 1999 (311)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kaylah
Kaylah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 28.8% against Kaylah's 0.54%.
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 Kaylah is used
Across 2016–2025, Kaylah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 21,540 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).
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.
Kaylah around the world
Where Kaylah 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,705in 2025
- Scotland2000–2017#666in 2017
- Northern Ireland2005–2005#377in 2005
- Ireland2000–2022#747in 2022
- France2007–2025#1,588in 2025
- Canada1991–2022#2,318in 2022
- South Australia1989–2012#563in 2012
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.
Kaylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kaylah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaylah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kaylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.