Kyla
#579 for girls in 2025, 512 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 2,038 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 43,674since 1940
Kyla over time
Rank among girls' names. Kyla has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #579 | 512 | — | |
| 2024 | #547 | 554 | — | |
| 2023 | #564 | 527 | — | |
| 2022 | #560 | 546 | — | |
| 2021 | #498 | 626 | — | |
| 2020 | #491 | 621 | — | |
| 2019 | #462 | 674 | — | |
| 2018 | #434 | 728 | — | |
| 2017 | #387 | 807 | — | |
| 2016 | #366 | 889 | — | |
| 2015 | #357 | 921 | — | |
| 2014 | #355 | 919 | — | |
| 2013 | #316 | 1,026 | — | |
| 2012 | #284 | 1,115 | — | |
| 2011 | #285 | 1,111 | — | |
| 2010 | #253 | 1,284 | — | |
| 2009 | #263 | 1,248 | — | |
| 2008 | #245 | 1,411 | — | |
| 2007 | #231 | 1,528 | — | |
| 2006 | #204 | 1,693 | — | |
| 2005 | #194 | 1,770 | — | |
| 2004 | #162 | 2,038 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #165 | 2,023 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #187 | 1,705 | — | |
| 2001 | #247 | 1,295 | — | |
| 2000 | #235 | 1,363 | — | |
| 1999 | #253 | 1,245 | — | |
| 1998 | #264 | 1,177 | — | |
| 1997 | #260 | 1,116 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #290 | 997 | — | |
| 1995 | #411 | 625 | — | |
| 1994 | #401 | 626 | — | |
| 1993 | #395 | 638 | — | |
| 1992 | #367 | 701 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #397 | 645 | — | |
| 1990 | #426 | 596 | — | |
| 1989 | #428 | 580 | — | |
| 1988 | #426 | 546 | — | |
| 1987 | #459 | 480 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #546 | 371 | — | |
| 1985 | #580 | 336 | — | |
| 1984 | #523 | 369 | — | |
| 1983 | #535 | 351 | — | |
| 1982 | #527 | 371 | — | |
| 1981 | #528 | 360 | — | |
| 1980 | #605 | 303 | — | |
| 1979 | #553 | 336 | — | |
| 1978 | #782 | 195 | — | |
| 1977 | #851 | 173 | — | |
| 1976 | #832 | 166 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,100 | 106 | — | |
| 1974 | #896 | 142 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,138 | 97 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,079 | 106 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,113 | 106 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,182 | 97 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,480 | 63 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,418 | 63 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,269 | 72 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,350 | 66 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,548 | 54 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,547 | 53 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,757 | 42 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,061 | 31 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,820 | 37 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,117 | 28 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,784 | 37 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,341 | 22 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kyla! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kyla is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#544 · 1 in 5,213
- Georgia#723 · 1 in 7,196
- Pennsylvania#763 · 1 in 10,301
- California#816 · 1 in 7,615
- Michigan#924 · 1 in 12,378
Best ever in a state: #55 in Hawaii, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | #544 | 6 | 1 in 5,213 |
| Georgia | #723 | 5 | 1 in 7,196 |
| Pennsylvania | #763 | 7 | 1 in 10,301 |
| California | #816 | 18 | 1 in 7,615 |
| Michigan | #924 | 5 | 1 in 12,378 |
| Illinois | #1,010 | 6 | 1 in 12,433 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kyla
- 32 spots since 2024 (#547 → #579)
- 88 spots since 2020 (#491 → #579)
- 222 spots since 2015 (#357 → #579)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 1976 (#1,100 → #832)
- Biggest drop: 204 spots in 1975 (#896 → #1,100)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 2004 at #162 (2,038 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1976–2025
- Highest: 1 in 901 girls born in 2004 were named Kyla (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,139 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 36.8% of all girls named Kyla (16,074) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 20 | #3,892 (1949) | #4,149 |
| 1950s | 221 | #1,784 (1957) | #2,656 |
| 1960s | 542 | #1,269 (1967) | #1,577 |
| 1970s | 1,524 | #553 (1979) | #953 |
| 1980s | 4,067 | #426 (1988) | #516 |
| 1990s | 8,366 | #253 (1999) | #346 |
| 2000s | 16,074 | #162 (2004) | #213 |
| 2010s | 9,474 | #253 (2010) | #350 |
| 2020s | 3,386 | #491 (2020) | #540 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kyla in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 14,351 of them was named Kyla, which outranked 88.8% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,073Kimberli107
- #1,073Marti107
- #1,073Mendy107
- #1,079Kyla106
- #1,079Lela106
- #1,079Loriann106
- #1,079Sunny106
- #1,084Alanna105
- #1,084Dolly105
- #1,084Edwina105
Tied with 4 names at #1,079; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.