Cailah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Cailah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Cailah mean?
Modern: spelling of Kaila, itself a spelling of Kayla
Spelling of Kayla, a 20th-century name probably formed from Kyla, the feminine of Kyle.
Meaning borrowed from Kaila. More on Wiktionary.
Is Cailah a girl's or a boy's name?
Cailah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cailah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Cailah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2006, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
Half of all the girls named Cailah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,082 girls in the US were given Cailah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #309, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Cailah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
Names like Cailah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Teagan, Brylee, Braelynn, Nevaeh, Cassidy, Kaliyah, Brooklyn, Kaylee, Selah, Braylee, Caleigh
Other spellings of Cailah
Kayla, Kaila, Kaylah, Cayla, Kailah, Calah, Kaela, Caila, Khaila
Names related to Cailah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cailah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cailah, updated 20 October 2026.