Name meaning & stats
Kayla
Kayla means “slender (debated)”. 347,109 US babies since 1940, peak 1991.
What it means
“slender (debated)”
Debated
In US birth records
Peak year: 1991
347,109 US babies were named Kayla between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Kayla (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 89% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1991)