Kaylah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kaylah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #367 in 2006, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#367highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3174
1998	#3848
1999	#3900
2000	#3912
2001	#2226
2002	#1658
2003	#3594
2004	#1836
2005	#2084
2006	#1660
2007	#1741
2008	#1247
2009	#1287
2010	#1150
2011	#1225
2012	#1583
2013	#1864
2014	#1341
2015	#1783
2016	#2008
2017	#3583
2018	#3985
2019	#3541
2020	#3117
2021	#4634
2022	#3148
2023	#3598
2024	#3015

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 2022: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3148 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 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 recorded2000–2022
Highest recorded position: #367 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2006 (recorded 2000–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaylah appears in 2 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 325 births with the name.

Kaylah across 2 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.

Kaylah'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	#3126 (1996)	#1150 (2010)	#3015 (2024)	29 of 29	325 (1996–2024)	28 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#367 (2006)	#747 (2022)	11 of 23	61 (2000–2022)	11 (2007)

Kaylah 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 Kaylah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	4 of 10	4
2000s	120	10 of 10	12
2010sbusiest	159	10 of 10	16
2020s	32	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

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

Kaylah 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #367 in Republic of Ireland in 2006.

Kaylah'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	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1341	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1583	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1150	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1287	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1247	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	11	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#367	10	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #367, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 9 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.

Kayla · #18, 41y
Kayla-Rose · #451, 12y
Kaylan · #695, 29y
Kayleb · #387, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Mayah · #366, 24y
Gino · #369, 29y
Mary-Jane · #365, 28y
Rodrigo · #365, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aliya · #367, 30y
Asad · #366, 29y
Karly · #366, 22y
Mayah · #366, 24y

Kaylah was ranked #367 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2006. 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.

Kaylah 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 Kaylah without appearing here.

Kaylah moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3912 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1836 and #4598.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #5669.
Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3594 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1660 and #4157.

Moved ahead of Kaylah

Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2008 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3583 and #2201.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1939.
Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2008 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3583 and #2502.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1341 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1783 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Kaylah

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylah went from #1836 to #3015 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Rian Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylah went from #3126 to #1783 while Rian went from #2350 to #5730.
Ada Compare
Between 2006 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kaylah went from #367 to #747 while Ada went from #550 to #48.
Evie Compare
Between 2006 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kaylah went from #367 to #747 while Evie went from #161 to #26.

Moved the same way as Kaylah

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylah went from #3126 to #4634 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylah went from #3126 to #4634 and Tyler from #230 to #5581.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylah went from #1658 to #3015 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.
Karen Compare
Between 2000 and 2018 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Kaylah went from #536 to #896 and Karen from #82 to #629.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #367 in Republic of Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kaylah

Kaylah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaylah across 2 official records

Kaylah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaylah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Kaylah moved ahead of

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Kaylah at a glance

Kaylah across 2 official records

Kaylah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaylah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaylah

Kaylah and the names beside it

Kaylah moved ahead of

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