Kaila

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kaila: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kaila: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #365 in 2014, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#365highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#2411
1998	#3142
1999	#3225
2000	#2416
2001	#1728
2002	#1151
2003	#1472
2004	#1617
2005	#1406
2006	#1119
2007	#1102
2008	#1206
2009	#1105
2010	#896
2011	#877
2012	#1253
2013	#1639
2014	#1562
2015	#2195
2016	#2367
2017	#2201
2018	#2090
2019	#2869
2020	#2163
2021	#2073
2022	#2488
2023	#2346
2024	#2771

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #2771 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2008–2017
Highest recorded position: #365 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2014 (recorded 2008–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaila appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 450 births with the name.

Kaila across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kaila's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#877 (2011)	#2771 (2024)	29 of 29	450 (1996–2024)	41 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#365 (2014)	#432 (2017)	5 of 10	16 (2008–2017)	4 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#488 (2009)	#488 (2009)	#894 (2013)	3 of 5	14 (2009–2013)	8 (2009)

Kaila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kaila in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	179	10 of 10	18
2010sbusiest	199	10 of 10	20
2020s	55	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kaila appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #365 in Northern Ireland in 2014.

Kaila's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#877	41	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#896	39	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1206	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1102	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1119	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	8	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #365, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kaidyn · #1885, 13y
Kaif · #875, 27y
Kailan · #996, 29y
Kailani · #790, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Clay · #365, 30y
Aliya · #367, 30y
Callen · #363, 27y
Gracie-Mae · #368, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amy-Rose · #365, 23y
Chardonnay · #365, 22y
Clay · #365, 30y
Mary-Jane · #365, 28y

Kaila was ranked #365 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2014. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kaila and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kaila without appearing here.

Kaila moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2090 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2090 and #4684.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Kaila

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #1452.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #1743.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1562 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2195 and #1240.
Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1562 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2195 and #1279.

Moved the opposite way to Kaila

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaila went from #3795 to #2073 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaila went from #3795 to #2073 while Tyler went from #230 to #5581.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaila went from #1728 to #2771 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaila went from #3795 to #2090 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.

Moved the same way as Kaila

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaila went from #1151 to #2771 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #365 in Northern Ireland in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kaila

Kaila at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaila across 3 official records

Kaila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaila appears in

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Kaila at a glance

Kaila across 3 official records

Kaila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaila

Kaila and the names beside it

Kaila moved ahead of

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