Khaila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Khaila is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Khaila 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 Khaila a girl's or a boy's name?
Khaila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khaila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Khaila, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 82 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had more girls named Khaila than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Khaila in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,082 girls in the US were given Khaila or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #309, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Khaila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,440 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,359 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,197 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,139 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,362 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,790 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,481 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,116 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Names like Khaila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Kaliyah Salma Zaira Zayla Hafsa Hiba Aaliyah Huda Zaniyah Rahma Zainab
Other spellings of Khaila
Names related to Khaila
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Khaila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khaila, updated 20 October 2026.