Kaila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaila 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
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaila 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kaila is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, a female given name from Hawaiian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, a Finnish surname from landscape
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, secrecy; concealment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, an acquaintance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, armpit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta ASV ("Kyle"), Teksasas štatā, 32900 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Kaila Colbinb. 1970USNew Zealand entrepreneur
- Kaila Yub. 1979USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Kaila Amariahb. 1986USAmerican actress
- Kaila Charlesb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Magly Villamizar Ordoñezb. 2000COnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Kaila Novakb. 2002CACanadian association football player
- Kaila Kuhnb. 2003USAmerican freestyle skier
- Kaila AustinUSAmerican artist
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 76 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,130 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.7K | #2,213 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.9K | #3,935 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 122 | #2,213 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 106 | #2,749 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 88 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31 | #2,130 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 11 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 2 | #1,491 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Kaila 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.
- In which country does Kaila have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kaila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaila.
- Where is Kaila most common?
- Kaila is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Kaila a male or female name?
- Kaila 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 are other forms of the name Kaila?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Kaila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,533 people named Kaila in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kailaThe 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, “Kaila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.