Kayleah

#6,686 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kaylee

Kayleah has been given to 669 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #6,686 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Kayleah, 2025

1 in 195,000

Kayleah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kayleah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaylee

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kayleah means

Kayleah is a variant of Kaylee.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaylee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 669 girls were recorded with the name Kayleah between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2010; its best national rank was #4,674 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,806 in 2020 to #6,686 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,436 in 2015 to #6,686 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Kayleah?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 195,000; 17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 94,500; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,686; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 135,172 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kayleah 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kayleahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayleah was born before 2008 — so the typical Kayleah is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 76.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 669; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (224).

Is Kayleah 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: +2,010; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +6,120; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +750; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.06×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 54.8%; Peak was 2010 (31)
Years since peak: 15; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,674; 2010

Spellings of Kayleah

Kayleah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 52.7% against Kayleah's 0.10%.

Kayla52.7%346,570
Kaylee21.4%140,425
Kayleigh5.3%34,561
Aleah2.5%16,592
Jaylah1.6%10,661
Maleah1.4%9,426
Kayley1.3%8,586
Kayleen1.2%7,995

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 Kayleah is used

Across 1910–2025, Kayleah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,349,052 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Ohio1 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. Kayleah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kayleah around the world

Where Kayleah 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.

South Australia
1996–2001
#711
in 2001

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kayleah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,686
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 6,120
Best rank ever: #4,674; 2010
Peak year: 2010; 31 that year
First recorded: 1987
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 669
Count in 2025: 17

Names similar to Kayleah

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

Kaylana Kaylinn Kayonna Kayloni Kaylina Kayanna Kaybree Kayzlee Kaylanie Kaylor Kaylia Kayliah Kayslee Kaysen Kayleena Kayana Kayliana Kayelynn Kaylany Azaleah Kaylena Kaysie Kaytlyn Kaysha

Sibling names for Kayleah

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

For a sister

Rhianna Abagail Hayleigh Jaiden Shaniya Jazmyne Taniya Adelle

For a brother

Aaden Brennen Jerimiah Gavyn Jorden Jamarcus Nevin Zakary

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