Kayla (name)
Kayla is a recently created English feminine given name combining the name elements Kay and -la. Its use has been influenced by similar-sounding names such as Kaylee. Use of the name increased in the 1980s after the name was used for the character Kayla Brady on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Notable people with the name include:
- Ryan Ackroyd, a British computer hacker who posed as a female known as Kayla
- Kayla Adamek, Polish footballer
- Kayla Alexander, Canadian professional basketball
- Kayla Ard, American college basketball coach
- Kayla Bamwarth, American volleyball player and coach
- Kayla Barron, American submarine warfare officer, engineer, and astronaut
- Kayla Bashore Smedley, American field hockey player
- Kayla Blake, an American actress
- Kayla Braxton, American sports broadcaster
- Kayla Bell, British wheelchair basketball player
- Kayla Canett, American rugby union player
- Kayla Clarke, Australian swimmer
- Kayla Cromer, American actress
- Kayla Cross, Canadian tennis player
- Kayla Cullen, New Zealand netball player
- Kayla Day, American professional tennis player
- Kayla DiCello, American gymnast
- Kayla Ewell, American actress
- Kayla Fischer, American professional soccer player
- Kayla Grey, Canadian television sportscaster
- Kayla Harrison, American judoka
- Kayla Hoffman, American artistic gymnast
- Kayla Itsines, American author, entrepreneur, and personal trainer
- Kayla Kessinger, American politician from West Virginia
- Kayla Kent, American Guitarist and YouTuber.
- Kayla Laserson, American epidemiologist
- Kayla Maisonet, American actress and influencer
- Kayla Martell, American beauty queen
- Kayla McAlister, New Zealand netball player
- Kayla McBride, American professional basketball player
- Kayla Mendoza, American serving 24 years in prison after being charged with vehicular homicide
- Kayla Miracle, American wrestler
- Kayla Moore, American president of Foundation for Moral Law
- Kayla Morrison, American-Australian footballer
- Kayla Mueller, American human rights activist
- Kayla Parker, American musician
- Kayla Pedersen, American basketball player
- Kayla Reeves, American musician
- Kayla Rolland, American child shot and killed by another child
- Kayla Sanchez, Filipino-Canadian swimmer
- Kayla Sharland, New Zealand field hockey player
- Kayla Sims, American YouTuber
- Kayla Standish, American basketball player
- Kayla Stra, Australian jockey
- Kayla Swarts, South African field hockey player
- Kayla Tausche, American broadcast journalist
- Kayla Vespa, Canadian ice hockey player
- Kayla White, American track and field athlete
- Kayla Whitelock, New Zealand field hockey player
- Kayla Williams (author), American writer
- Kayla Williams (gymnast), American artistic gymnast
- Kayla Young, American politician
Fictional Character
- Kayla Azfal, character from Ackley Bridge
- Kayla Booth, character from Home and Away
- Kayla Brady, Days of Our Lives character
- Kayla Day, from Eighth Grade
- Kayla Morgan, from Cloud 9
- Kayla Knowles, a daughter of Apollo from Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo.
- Kayla, the sister of Lee from Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All.
- Kayla Forester, from Tom and Jerry.