Kayla

What Kayla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kayla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #115 in 2015, #364 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kayla?

US: Falling: down from #115 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #243 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1991, when 18,545 girls got the name (#12 that year). First in the US records in 1933.

How common

• About 1 in 1,918 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,303 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,118 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (1.83 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.5 per 1,000 girls), MD (1.45 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kayla is #364 in the US and #386 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kayla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kaylee1,205 US · 14 E&W
• Kali948 US · 26 E&W
• Kyla512 US · 47 E&W
• Kaeli358 US
• Keyla331 US · 5 E&W
• Calla156 US · 12 E&W
• Keila136 US
• Kylah126 US · 9 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kayla

Girls

• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Jasmine#206Editor’s note Down from #110 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 in the US
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*

For a brother

• Andrew#73“manly”^*
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Joshua#66“to save”^*
• Brandon#261“broom shrub + hill, dune”^*
• Tyler#219“tiler”^*
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kayla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.