Meaning and history
Kayla is a name formed from the popular phonetic elements kay and la. Its use increased sharply after 1982, when the character Kayla Brady began appearing on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives.
20062006: 8,226 births, rank #26
2007: 7,583 births, rank #26
2008: 6,835 births, rank #28
2009: 5,847 births, rank #35
2010: 5,060 births, rank #49
20112011: 4,336 births, rank #59
2012: 3,776 births, rank #69
2013: 3,261 births, rank #96
2014: 3,012 births, rank #101
2015: 2,740 births, rank #115
20162016: 2,471 births, rank #129
2017: 2,128 births, rank #138
2018: 1,892 births, rank #149
2019: 1,613 births, rank #182
2020: 1,340 births, rank #215
20212021: 1,217 births, rank #254
2022: 1,133 births, rank #279
2023: 952 births, rank #324
2024: 935 births, rank #336
20252025: 838 births, rank #364
Kayla moved from #336 to #364 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1991, with 18,545 births.