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Keyla

#821 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Keyla has been given to 9,881 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #821 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 428 recorded.

Babies named Keyla, 2025

1 in 10,000

Keyla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keyla: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keyla means

Keyla is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Keyla is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,881 girls were recorded with the name Keyla between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 428 in 2016; its best national rank was #683 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #838 in 2020 to #821 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #809 in 2015 to #821 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 Keyla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,000
331 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,860
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#821
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keyla 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keyla was born before 2011 — so the typical Keyla is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,881
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (3,582).

Is Keyla 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
−19
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+17
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−12
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.3%
Peak was 2016 (428)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#683
2016

Spellings of Keyla

Keyla is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 18.3% against Keyla's 0.38%.

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 Keyla is used

Across 2016–2025, Keyla was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 4,035 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

344 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 2,273
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,381
  3. 3California1 in 2,632
  4. 4Texas1 in 2,703
  5. 5New York1 in 2,778
  6. 6Alabama1 in 3,226
  7. 7Arizona1 in 3,448
  8. 8Virginia1 in 3,846

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.

Geographically, Keyla is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 76% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Keyla around the world

Where Keyla 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
    2007–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #574
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Keyla

People whose public names include Keyla, 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.

Keyla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#821
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 17
Best rank ever
#683
2016
Peak year
2016
428 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,881
Count in 2025
331

Names similar to Keyla

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

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Names with a curve like Keyla

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

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Sibling names for Keyla

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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