Keela
#16,108 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keela has been given to 1,070 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #16,108 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Keela, 2025
1 in 663,000
Keela 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keela?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,108
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keela 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keela was born before 1985 — so the typical Keela is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 24.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,070
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (259).
Is Keela 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
- −1,830
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −8,306
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.33×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.2%
- Peak was 1978 (33)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Keela
Keela is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 22.1% against Keela's 0.05%.
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 Keela is used
Across 1910–2025, Keela was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 644,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 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. Keela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keela around the world
Where Keela 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 & Wales2002–2024#5,892in 2024
- Scotland1998–1998#558in 1998
- Northern Ireland2003–2018#361in 2018
- Ireland1998–2025#885in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Keela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.