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Cayla

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Cayla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. Its best rank was 509th, in 1991.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
380.00% of girls
Peak year
1999469 births
Best rank
#509in 1991
Since 1956
10,821people given the name
Babies named Cayla, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

10,821 girls have been named Cayla in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 469 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 40%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Cayla
1950s7
1960s26
1970s74
1980s1,486
1990s4,359
2000s3,292
2010s1,365
2020s212

In 1999, its biggest year

Cayla was the 538th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.

Names that rose and fell with Cayla

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.