girls:
7.7k births since 1943
#1861 (67th percentile)
boys:
92 births since 1972
#4494 (2nd percentile)
overall:
7.7k births since 1943
#3064 (60th percentile)
The name Kala is the #3,064 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,749 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 60.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,861 (67.4% percentile) for all time with 7,657 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #4,494 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 92 births since 1972.
Kala first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for girls and 1972 for boys).
The name Kala has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kala reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 50.2% percentile (ranked #411) with 264 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 264 births per million (ranked 50.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kala ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kala reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kala".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kala. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.1% confident that Kala is pronounced as KAH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-luh, at 22.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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