Keyla

What Keyla means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #821 vs #4,201 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Keyla?

US: Steady: #808 in 2015, #821 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #3615 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 428 girls got the name (#683 that year). First in the US records in 1961.

How common

• About 1 in 4,856 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 50,656 baby girls in England and Wales 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 AL (0.6 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.5 per 1,000 girls), TN (0.5 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Keyla is #821 in the US and #4201 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 Keyla were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kayla838 US · 110 E&W
• Kyla512 US · 47 E&W
• Kelly319 US · 14 E&W
• Keily194 US
• Keila136 US
• Kylah126 US · 9 E&W
• Kaila88 US · 11 E&W
• Keyli72 US

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 Keyla

Girls

• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Serenity#129Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #129 vs #997 in 2025
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Sofia#9“wisdom, especially divine wisdom”^*
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*

For a brother

• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Cooper#27Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #77 in 2015, #27 in 2025
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*

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 Keyla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.