girls:
6.3k births since 1967
#2085 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1967
#3416 (56th percentile)
The name Kaela is the #3,416 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,313 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 55.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,085 (63.5% percentile) for all time with 6,313 births since 1967.
Kaela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for girls in 1967). Birth data for Kaela is available in 54 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Kaela reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 37.2% percentile (ranked #540) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 180 births per million (ranked 37.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaela ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 10.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaela".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kaela is pronounced as KAY-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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