girls:
42.6k births since 1940
#652 (89th percentile)
boys:
29 births since 1987
#4557 (1st percentile)
overall:
42.6k births since 1940
#1194 (85th percentile)
The name Kyla is the #1,194 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 42,626 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 84.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #652 (88.6% percentile) for all time with 42,597 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #4,557 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1987.
Kyla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Kyla is available in 77 out of the 84 years between 1940 and 2023 (77 years for girls and 5 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 Kyla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kyla reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 83.0% percentile (ranked #160) with 1,010 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 1,010 births per million (ranked 83.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kyla ranks #490 for girls (48.3% percentile) with 299 births per million, which is 29.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kyla reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #789) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kyla".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kyla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Kyla is pronounced as KAI-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-luh, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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