How rare is the name Keyla?

7,927 people in the United States have the first name Keyla, about 1 in 38,102. It ranks #2,886 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KEYLA

#2,886

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,927
About
1 in 38,102
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 7,927 people named Keyla, 85.6% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 7.1% as White and 5.8% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Keyla peaked in 2016, when 428 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19612025
Peak year
2016
Births that year
428
In 2025*
331 ▼23%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,881 babies have been given the name since 1961. 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.

Keyla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,464. The largest share of babies named Keyla, 44.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#12,40219
1970s#6,367152
1980s#4,423340
1990s#2,5911,055
2000s#1,5892,846
2010s#1,4643,582
2020s#1,6381,887
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–801.9%
Millennials 1981–969.3%
Generation Z 1997–1244.5%
2013 and later44.2%

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 Keyla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Keyla has been most common in Arizona (3.4×), Texas (3.2×), and California (2.3×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.1×).

7,868 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.

Either side of Keyla

#2,884 Janiya · 7,935#2,885 Viktor · 7,931#2,887 Kole · 7,923#2,888 Kerrie · 7,918

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,786 Keila · 8,338#11,562 Keyli · 1,103#12,747 Kela · 967#12,874 Keela · 952#13,322 Keala · 910#17,930 Keola · 607#20,433 Kella · 506#28,872 Keyly · 309

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