Keyla

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Keyla is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name7.7K records spelled Keyla6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, French Guiana

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Këyla, Keÿla, Keylä, Kéyla

• Indonesian given name1.6K records spelled Keyla3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Këylä

• Finnish given name139 records spelled Keyla4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Peru, Spain

  Also written Këÿlä, Këylä

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 64 years between 1938–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Keyla Badanowskyb. 1866LTHolocaust victim (born 1866)
• Keyla Orozcob. 1969CUCuban composer
• Keyla Ohsb. 1979CACanadian figure skater
• Keyla Boaventurab. 1982BRBrazilian singer, composer and television presenter
• Keyla Ávilab. 1990HNHonduran taekwondo athlete
• Keyla Monterroso Mejiab. 1998USAmerican actress and comedian
• Key Alvesb. 2000BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian volleyball player
• Keyla Zarateb. 2001MXMexican association football player
• Kiomy Luperónb. 2003USnot in their usual nameDominican Republic association football player (born 2003)
• Keyla Santos Guedes de Sáresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 440 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Keyla?

We estimate roughly 42 thousand people bear Keyla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Keyla have the most bearers?

Keyla is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled keyla.

Where is Keyla most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keyla is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 896 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.

How common is Keyla compared with other names?

In Venezuela, Keyla is the 562nd most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.

Is Keyla a male or female name?

Keyla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.