Cayla is a first name for girls.
Cayla is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,814 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,813 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cayla.
Cayla is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Cayla - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 493 in 1991. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Cayla really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cayla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
40 babies were named Cayla in 2022 - that's 1 in 3,705,798 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Cayla ranked 3,328 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Cayla is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cayla and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cayla, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cayla
Cayla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
Y
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
Y
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cayla sounds like this:
