Name meaning & stats
Kyla
Kyla means “narrow strait”. 43,703 US babies since 1940, peak 2004.
What it means
“narrow strait”
Feminine form of Kyle
In US birth records
Peak year: 2004
43,703 US babies were named Kyla between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Kyla (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: 57% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2004)