Kayla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kayla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ethiopian ethnic group/language; also U.S.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.7K
- CACanada≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kayla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 562 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
303,207 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Ethiopian ethnic group/language; also U.S. form of Kay/Katherine, 'pure'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayla 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 | #418 | 303,207 | 1 in 1.1K | 303K | Kayla | 562 |
| CN China | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kayla | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | 61,451as Keila | 1 in 3.4K | 67K | — | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 10,665as Keila | 1 in 2.7K | 11K | — | — |
| CA Canada | #470 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 22 | Kayla | 263 |
| AU Australia | #431 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 89 | Kayla | 206 |
303,207 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kayla is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Corona d’alloro / Perfetta
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Coronada de laureles
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
English: recently coined altered form of KAYLEY .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kayla Ewellb. 1985USAmerican actress
- Kayla Barronb. 1987USAmerican astronaut
- Kayla Muellerb. 1988USAmerican aid worker and ISIS captive (1988–2015)
- Kayla McAlisterb. 1988NZNetball and Rugby Sevens player
- Kayla Banwarthb. 1989USAmerican volleyball player and coach
- Kayla Harrisonb. 1990USAmerican Olympic judoka and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Kayla Thorntonb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Kayla Wallaceb. 1993CACanadian actress
- Kayla Maisonetb. 1999USAmerican actress
- Kayla Dayb. 1999USAmerican female tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 90 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 303K | #167 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.3K | #2,309 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8K | #6,344 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 838 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 520 | #167 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 154 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2012 | 89 | #83 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81 | #2,309 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2010 | 71 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 22 | #181 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kayla come from?
- Ethiopian ethnic group/language; also U.S. form of Kay/Katherine, 'pure'. Recorded by African Names.
- Is Kayla a male or female name?
- Kayla 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.
- What does the name Kayla mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ethiopian ethnic group/language; also U.S.
- In which country does Kayla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 303 thousand people named Kayla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayla.
- Where is Kayla most common?
- Kayla is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Kayla?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kathy and Kathryn.
- How common is the name Kayla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 303,207 people named Kayla in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Kayla compared with other names?
- In the United States, Kayla is the 418th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaylaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kayla” — the 418th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.