Kaila

From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.

Kaila

1. A female given name.
   • 1982, Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     How we got to Kate I don't know. My mother must have sought it to keep as clear as possible the link to her grandmother Kaila, not realizing how intensely Catholic a name it then was.

• Laika, laika

Of multiple origins, explanations including a Häme dialectal form of kaisla (“rush”), shortening of the surnames Kajala and Kainula, hamlet named Kaila, Germanic first name Old High German Gailo, and the word kailava (“spotted”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑi̯lɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝i̯lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑilɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Kai‧la

Kaila

1. a Finnish surname from landscape

• Kaila is the 1622^nd (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 528 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Finnish Wikipedia: Kaila

• kaali, laaki, laika, lakia, likaa

kaila (“style”),a loan word from English style; can also be construed as ka (“the”) + ila (“dark birthmark; darkness; seedling”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkai̯.la/, [ˈkɐj.lə], [ˈkɛj.lə] (rapid speech)

Kaila

1. a female given name from Hawaiian

• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Kaila occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 4 women.
• Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names by State: included in the top hundred first names for girls born in the State of Hawaii in 1999-2008; there is no way to tell how many of these Kailas are English or Hawaiian.