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Caela
How to Pronounce Caela
Pronounced KAY-luh /ˈkeɪ.lə/High
Meaning: Caela is a spelling in the Kayla family, read KAY-luh. It may be a streamlined form of Kayla or Michaela (from Michael, 'who is like God?'), or draw on the Gaelic element caol, 'slender.' Because more than one route fits, the meaning is best given with those honest possibilities.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Caela appears in United States records from about 1985, peaking near 1994, as part of the broad Kayla and Michaela wave of the era. Its Cae- spelling gives it an Irish or Latin look; it may shorten Michaela or echo the Gaelic caol, 'slender,' though the exact route is uncertain. It stayed rare throughout, given to only a couple dozen girls a year even at its peak.
A Caela from the mid-1990s is now a young adult. The popular Kayla and Michaela are the forms that carried; Caela remained a rarer, more distinctive spelling whose meaning depends on which parent name a family had in mind.
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What does the name Caela mean?
It is a spelling in the Kayla family, sometimes read as a short form of Michaela or tied to the Gaelic caol, 'slender.'
How do you pronounce Caela?
It's said KAY-luh /ˈkeɪ.lə/, two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Caela a boy or girl name?
Caela is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Caela?
It has always been rare, a Kayla-family spelling that appeared in the mid-nineteen-eighties and never spread widely.