Kaila
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.
Proper noun[edit]
Kaila
- 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.
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kaila
- a Finnish surname from landscape
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Kaila (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Kaila | Kailat | ||
genitive | Kailan | Kailojen | ||
partitive | Kailaa | Kailoja | ||
illative | Kailaan | Kailoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Kaila | Kailat | ||
accusative | nom. | Kaila | Kailat | |
gen. | Kailan | |||
genitive | Kailan | Kailojen Kailainrare | ||
partitive | Kailaa | Kailoja | ||
inessive | Kailassa | Kailoissa | ||
elative | Kailasta | Kailoista | ||
illative | Kailaan | Kailoihin | ||
adessive | Kailalla | Kailoilla | ||
ablative | Kailalta | Kailoilta | ||
allative | Kailalle | Kailoille | ||
essive | Kailana | Kailoina | ||
translative | Kailaksi | Kailoiksi | ||
abessive | Kailatta | Kailoitta | ||
instructive | — | Kailoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- Kaila is the 1622nd (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.
Further reading[edit]
- Finnish Wikipedia: Kaila
Anagrams[edit]
Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
kaila (“style”),a loan word from English style; can also be construed as ka (“the”) + ila (“dark birthmark; darkness; seedling”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kaila
- a female given name from Hawaiian
References[edit]
- 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.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Yiddish
- English terms derived from Yiddish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English terms with quotations
- English female given names from Yiddish
- Finnish terms derived from Old High German
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑilɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑilɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Hawaiian terms borrowed from English
- Hawaiian terms derived from English
- Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian proper nouns
- Hawaiian given names
- Hawaiian female given names
- Hawaiian female given names from Hawaiian