Kaila
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Englisch
Etymology
From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.
Proper noun
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
Finnish
Etymology
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
Proper noun
Kaila
- a Finnish surname from landscape
Declension
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 Kailain rare | |
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
Statistics
- 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
- Finnish Wikipedia: Kaila
Anagrams
Hawaiian
Etymology
kaila (“style”),a loan word from English style; can also be construed as ka (“the”) + ila (“dark birthmark; darkness; seedling”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kaila
- a female given name from Hawaiian
References
- 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.
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- 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