Keyla Girl
How popular is Keyla?
#821 girl name in 2025
331 baby girls were named Keyla in the US in 2025, making it the 821st most popular girl name.
Keyla popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #821 for girls (▼ 20 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 331 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-5% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #808 in 2015, #838 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (428 girls) |
| Highest rank | #683 in 2010 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1961 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Keyla counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Keyla family of names ranked #565 for girls in 2025 (#563 the year before), with 503 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Keyla is most popular
Babies named Keyla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Alabama: 0.4 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Maryland: 0.4 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.4 per 1,000 (74 girls)
- New York: 0.4 per 1,000 (144 girls)
- California: 0.3 per 1,000 (288 girls)
Keyla by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 19 | #5,850 |
| 1970s | 152 | #2,942 |
| 1980s | 340 | #1,859 |
| 1990s | 1,055 | #1,204 |
| 2000s | 2,846 | #776 |
| 2010s | 3,582 | #683 |
| 2020s | 1,887 | #801 |
Girl names about as popular as Keyla
Questions
- Is Keyla a boy or girl name?
- Keyla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Keyla were girls.
- How popular is the name Keyla?
- 331 baby girls were named Keyla in the US in 2025, making it the 821st most popular girl name.
- When was Keyla most popular?
- Keyla peaked in 2016, when 428 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #683, held for 2 years starting in 2010.
- How many people are named Keyla?
- 9,881 babies have been named Keyla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 9,794 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Keyla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Keyla was most common in Alabama, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.