Keila
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ceila/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Keila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 3.1K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
61,451 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #592 | 61,451 | 1 in 3.4K | 67K | Keila | 147 |
| VE Venezuela | #405 | 10,665 | 1 in 2.7K | 11K | Keila | 39 |
| US United States | — | 8,338 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Keila | 197 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 29 | Keila | 118 |
| AR Argentina | #814 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 174 | Keila | 64 |
| HN Honduras | #366 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Keila | 23 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,398 | 1 in 5K | 3.4K | Keila | 26 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #241 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Keila | 33 |
61,451 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names. 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)Keila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, pin, tenpin (bottle-shaped target used in tenpin bowling)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, cone (solid of revolution)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Igaunijā, Raplas un Harju apriņķī, garums - 107 km, ietek Somu līcī, ietekas posmā ~5 m augsts ūdenskritums
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta ziemeļrietumu Igaunijā, Harju apriņķī, 9800 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.), pilsētas tiesības kopš 1938. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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)- Keila Vall de la Villeb. 1974VEVenezuelan author
- Keila Costab. 1983BRathletics competitor
- Keila de Cassia Coelho RosaBRBrazilian entomologist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Keila?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Keila?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ceila/; in Portuguese /cejlɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Keila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 61,451 people named Keila in 2022, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Keila compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Keila is the 592nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- Is Keila a male or female name?
- Keila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), Venezuela (asosab), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Keila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Keila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keila. After it come Venezuela, United States, Mexico and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Keila most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keila is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Keila?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keilaThe 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, “Keila” — the 592nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.