Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kayla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kayla” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kayla” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kayla” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kayla” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kayla” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kayla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kayla” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 100%
1943 12 0.000004251 12 100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 23 0.000007198 23 100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 100%
1948 30 0.000008689 30 100%
1949 24 0.000006887 24 100%
1950 37 0.000010561 37 100%
1951 51 0.000013845 51 100%
1952 47 0.000012375 47 100%
1953 49 0.000012715 49 100%
1954 60 0.000015073 60 100%
1955 67 0.000016687 67 100%
1956 69 0.000016735 69 100%
1957 101 0.000024035 101 100%
1958 103 0.000024916 103 100%
1959 116 0.000027898 116 100%
1960 130 0.000031297 130 100%
1961 116 0.000028004 116 100%
1962 166 0.000041136 166 100%
1963 156 0.000039412 156 100%
1964 163 0.000041928 163 100%
1965 147 0.000040547 147 100%
1966 144 0.000041431 144 100%
1967 135 0.000039766 135 100%
1968 139 0.000041144 139 100%
1969 192 0.000055247 192 100%
1970 158 0.00004381 158 100%
1971 168 0.000048946 168 100%
1972 182 0.000057907 182 100%
1973 149 0.000049389 149 100%
1974 180 0.000059211 180 100%
1975 185 0.000061271 185 100%
1976 202 0.000066572 202 100%
1977 226 0.000071148 226 100%
1978 237 0.000074672 237 100%
1979 256 0.000076946 256 100%
1980 314 0.00009116 314 100%
1981 317 0.000091635 317 100%
1982 2276 0.00064881 2276 100%
1983 3533 0.001020114 3527 6 100%
1984 2689 0.000770762 2681 8 99%
1985 2624 0.000735197 2608 16 99%
1986 4671 0.001313156 4657 14 99%
1987 10596 0.00293875 10579 17 100%
1988 13478 0.00364759 13432 46 99%
1989 14951 0.003888986 14904 47 99%
1990 17557 0.004442024 17538 19 100%
1991 18580 0.004769894 18545 35 100%
1992 16551 0.004308728 16517 34 100%
1993 15476 0.004104736 15452 24 100%
1994 15907 0.004278775 15885 22 100%
1995 16107 0.00439823 16087 20 100%
1996 15291 0.004192537 15269 22 100%
1997 13899 0.003833415 13885 14 100%
1998 13438 0.003653411 13422 16 100%
1999 13316 0.003604894 13292 24 100%
2000 13330 0.003526545 13313 17 100%
2001 11909 0.003181341 11892 17 100%
2002 11324 0.003029192 11310 14 100%
2003 10980 0.002887711 10957 23 100%
2004 9813 0.002568228 9773 40 99%
2005 8640 0.002247165 8620 20 100%
2006 8226 0.002079274 8226 100%
2007 7597 0.001900351 7583 14 100%
2008 6844 0.001741181 6835 9 100%
2009 5853 0.001532129 5847 6 100%
2010 5068 0.001371309 5060 8 100%
2011 4341 0.001186782 4336 5 100%
2012 3776 0.001032437 3776 100%
2013 3267 0.000896132 3260 7 100%
2014 3012 0.000812654 3012 100%
2015 2740 0.000740358 2740 100%
2016 2470 0.000673263 2470 100%
2017 2127 0.000594766 2127 100%
2018 1895 0.000538981 1890 5 99%
2019 1617 0.000465869 1612 5 99%
2020 1339 0.000400829 1339 100%
2021 1216 0.000358919 1216 100%
2022 1132 0.000334601 1132 100%
2023 952 0.000287509 952 100%
2024 931 0.000279705 931 100%

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