How popular is the name Keyla?

Keyla ranks 1,304th among girls' names in US records, with 11,385 births since 1961. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,650.

Is Keyla a unisex name?

No. Keyla is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2016, when 453 children were given the name. It has been in use for 64 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Keilah, Keelah, Quayla, Kyila, Kielah, Kealah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,304 of girl names

Pronounced K EY1 L AA1 (ARPABET)

Keyla is a girls' name, and first appears in 1961. It has been given to 11,385 children — the 1,304th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2016, when 453 children were given it.

Six other spellings are counted in that total — Keilah, Keelah, Quayla and three more — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Keyla and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Keyla?: Keyla ranks 1,304th among girls' names in US records, with 11,385 births since 1961. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,650.
Is Keyla a unisex name?: No. Keyla is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Keyla most popular?: 2016, when 453 children were given the name. It has been in use for 64 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Keyla spelled?: Keilah, Keelah, Quayla, Kyila, Kielah, Kealah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.