girls:
344.8k births since 1933
#105 (98th percentile)
boys:
574 births since 1983
#4012 (12th percentile)
overall:
345.3k births since 1933
#210 (97th percentile)
The name Kayla is the #210 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 345,346 recorded births since 1933. This represents the 97.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #105 (98.2% percentile) for all time with 344,772 births since 1933. For boys, it ranks #4,012 (12.5% percentile) for all time with 574 births since 1983.
Kayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1933 (1933 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Kayla is available in 89 out of the 91 years between 1933 and 2023 (89 years for girls and 31 years for boys). 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.
The name Kayla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kayla reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 98.8% percentile (ranked #11) with 7,964 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 9,120 births per million (ranked 98.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kayla ranks #306 for girls (67.8% percentile) with 544 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kayla reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #711) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 23 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kayla".
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