Káila
given name · Latin script
Káila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: kaila (“style”),a loan word from English style; can also be construed as ka (“the”) + ila (“dark birthmark; darkness; seedling”).
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 31K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 204K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
12,533 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaila in US United States, BR Brazil, PH Philippines and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
kaila (“style”),a loan word from English style; can also be construed as ka (“the”) + ila (“dark birthmark; darkness; seedling”).
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Káila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,533 | 1 in 27K | 13K | Kaila | 123 |
| BR Brazil | 6,787 | 1 in 31K | 6.8K | Kaila | 51 |
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Kaila | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Kaila | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 2 | Kaila | 19 |
| AL Albania | 106 | 1 in 29K | 106 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Kaila | 9 |
12,533 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Káila mean, and where does it come from?
- kaila (“style”),a loan word from English style; can also be construed as ka (“the”) + ila (“dark birthmark; darkness; seedling”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Káila a male or female name?
- Káila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Káila have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Káila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaila.
- Where is Káila most common?
- Káila is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Káila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,533 people named Káila in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A1ilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Káila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.