Kaela
Kaela is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 648th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1996345 births
- Best rank
- #648in 1996
- Since 1967
- 6,338people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,338 girls have been named Kaela in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 345 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 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 45%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1996, its biggest year
Kaela was the 648th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Kaela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sierapeak 1998
- Allysapeak 1998
- Kaliepeak 1998
- Ciarrapeak 1997
- Kaleepeak 1999
- Cierrapeak 1998
- Katelinpeak 1993
- Brieannapeak 1994
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.