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Keila

#1,551 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kayla

Keila has been given to 7,424 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #1,551 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 239 recorded.

Babies named Keila, 2025

1 in 24,400

Keila over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keila: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kayla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keila means

Keila is a variant of Kayla.

Origin, language, and formation

Keila is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kayla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,424 girls were recorded with the name Keila between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 239 in 2006; its best national rank was #990 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,936 in 2020 to #1,551 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,395 in 2015 to #1,551 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Keila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,400
136 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,551
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keila 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keila was born before 2003 — so the typical Keila is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,424
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (2,212).

Is Keila 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
+14
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+385
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−156
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.9%
Peak was 2006 (239)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#990
2001

Spellings of Keila

Keila is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 17.1% against Keila'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 Keila is used

Across 2016–2025, Keila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 11,395 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,692
  2. 2Texas1 in 8,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 9,091
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 11,111
  5. 5New York1 in 11,111
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  7. 7Maryland1 in 20,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 20,000

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.

Keila around the world

Where Keila 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 & Wales
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2004
    #372
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    2005–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • France
    1965–2025
    #1,566
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1991–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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, 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.

Notable people named Keila

People whose public names include Keila, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Keila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,551
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 385
Best rank ever
#990
2001
Peak year
2006
239 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,424
Count in 2025
136

Names similar to Keila

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

KeilyKeiryKeiraTwilaKeilaniKeikoKeishaKailaBailaNilaNailaJamilaKeidyDalilaKeisyKeilahJailaKeiaraKeianaKeithAilaKeilynZoilaDelila

Names with a curve like Keila

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keila, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PriyaKeeleyShylaUniqueDenisseKinseyKalliJohanaAnisaKaterinaKatiaLeigha

Sibling names for Keila

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

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