Khala
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khala has been given to 281 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Khala, 2006
1 in 659,000
Khala 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Khala?
Khala had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 317,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khala sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khalas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khala was born before 1996 — so the typical Khala is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 60.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 281
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 60.9% of all recorded uses (171).
Is Khala 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (25)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.5% average annual change
Spellings of Khala
Khala is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 33.4% against Khala's 0.03%.
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 Khala is used
Across 1910–2025, Khala was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 931,388 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 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. Khala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Khala around the world
Where Khala 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 Australia1978–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Khala by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Khala
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khala
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.