Keila

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Keila: Recorded since 1997, it reached #372 in 2004, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#372highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2002	#4137
2004	#4598
2005	#3382
2006	#2509
2007	#3667
2008	#2487
2009	#5556
2010	#4688
2011	#3185
2012	#2717
2013	#2313
2014	#2862
2015	#4103
2016	#3214
2017	#3583
2018	#3518
2019	#4001
2021	#4634
2022	#3970
2023	#4709
2024	#4843

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 24 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2016: #868 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3214 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Keila appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 131 births with the name.

Keila 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.

Keila'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	#3824 (1997)	#2313 (2013)	#4843 (2024)	24 of 28	131 (1997–2024)	11 (2013)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#868 (2016)	3 of 12	10 (2005–2016)	4 (2011)

Keila 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 Keila in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	3 of 10	3
2000s	36	7 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	68	10 of 10	7
2020s	17	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 7 births a year.

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

Keila 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #372 in Northern Ireland in 2004.

Keila'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #372, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 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.

Kehinde · #451, 29y
Kei · #2087, 18y
Keilan · #423, 24y
Keir · #327, 29y

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.

Reanna · #372, 22y
Octavia · #373, 29y
Elana · #370, 29y
Jazmine · #370, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ela · #372, 30y
Elyse · #372, 30y
Giulia · #372, 30y
Maddy · #372, 29y

Keila was ranked #372 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2004. 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.

Keila 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 Keila without appearing here.

Keila moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3185 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Josefine Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5556 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2487 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Keila

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2862 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2705.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4103 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3583 and #2706.
Frida Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3225 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #3409.
Arlo Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3214 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3583 and #3583.

Moved the opposite way to Keila

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keila went from #3225 to #4843 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keila went from #3225 to #4843 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keila went from #2313 to #4843 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.
Noah Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keila went from #2313 to #4843 while Noah went from #5742 to #1743.

Moved the same way as Keila

Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keila went from #3382 to #4843 and Hayden from #3970 to #5891.

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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #372 in Northern Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Keila

Keila at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keila across 2 official records

Keila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keila appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Keila at a glance

Keila across 2 official records

Keila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keila 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 Keila

Keila and the names beside it

Keila moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Keila

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