Kyla is the anglicized version of the Irish name Cadhla meaning “beautiful” or “handsome.”
Kyla is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kyla isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kyla ranks 368. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Kyla. In the entire USA, approximately 39,466 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kyla. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Kyla is the anglicized version of the Irish name Cadhla meaning “beautiful” or “handsome.”
In the US,.. Kyla is in use since the 1970s.
The name Kyla may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Kyla is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,405 women in Nevada is called Kyla. In total, that’s 318 women who feel addressed when the name Kyla is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #346 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Kyla as the answer a total of 39,466 times. This places Kyla at #601 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Kyla as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Kyla is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kyla 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 Kyla, you can simply say:
Koala
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kyla
Kyla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
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.
K
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. Kyla sounds like this:
