Cayla

Where Cayla comes from

Cayla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #4,837 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Cayla George born
    Australian basketball player
  3. 1991
    Peak, #509
    463 babies named Cayla — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1999
    Cayla Barnes born
    American ice hockey player
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,120.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cayla George · Australian basketball player, born 1989
  • Cayla Barnes · American ice hockey player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.