Kaela

Where Kaela comes from

Kaela 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. 1967
    First appearance
    #5,457 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Kaela Kimura born
    Japanese pop rock singer, songwriter, model, and TV presenter
  3. 1995
    Kaela Davis born
    American basketball player
  4. 1996
    Peak, #648
    345 babies named Kaela — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,297.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kaela Kimura · Japanese pop rock singer, songwriter, model, and TV presenter, born 1984
  • Kaela Davis · American basketball player, born 1995
  • Kaela Edwards · American middle-distance runner, born 1993
  • Kaela Berg · American politician, born 1973

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.