How rare is the name Cayla?

9,718 people in the United States have the first name Cayla, about 1 in 31,080. It ranks #2,505 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CAYLA

#2,505

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,718
About
1 in 31,080
This common or more
80%
Who bears it

Of the 9,718 people named Cayla, 64.1% reported their origin as White, 17.2% as Black and 8.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cayla peaked in 1999, when 469 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19562025
Peak year
1999
Births that year
469
In 2025*
30 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,853 babies have been given the name since 1956. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Cayla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,043. The largest share of babies named Cayla, 48.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#13,6877
1960s#11,35426
1970s#9,81374
1980s#1,7301,486
1990s#1,0434,359
2000s#1,4353,292
2010s#2,8691,365
2020s#6,484244
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–800.9%
Millennials 1981–9641.5%
Generation Z 1997–1248.4%
2013 and later9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Cayla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cayla has been most common in Florida (2.4×), Georgia (2×), and Tennessee (1.7×), and least common in West Virginia (0.42×).

8,883 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Cayla

1 other first name also has 9,718 people.

#2,505 Jaimie · 9,718

Either side of Cayla

#2,503 Larisa · 9,748#2,504 Ryann · 9,739#2,505 Jaimie · 9,718#2,507 Benson · 9,711

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cayla, most common first.

#5,573 Calla · 3,050#11,956 Caila · 1,056#19,129 Cala · 558#21,056 Cayle · 486#21,475 Caela · 472#24,306 Cayli · 397#25,917 Caylah · 363#43,063 Caylea · 165

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