Kayla Rae Reid is Engaged to Ryan Lochte

Love is in the air! Ryan Lochte put on one romantic proposal for the Playboy model Kayla Rae Reid Sunday evening. That’s right – the olympian is officially off the market ladies.

The Olympic swimmer posted a picture of him and Reid kissing on social media, with the caption “Memories forever!!!” The picture was taken in Malibu, CA, overlooking the ocean. Reid was flashing her enormous diamond ring for everyone to see.

Reid responded to the post on Instagram with another kissing photo and the caption “Speechless. Absolutely beautiful. So in love with YOU!”

Lochte surprised his fiance with a private tour of Los Angeles in a helicopter, which ended with a proposal at sunset flying high over the Pacific Ocean. Reid is one lucky girl, as he proposed with custom made platinum ring that has a radiant cut diamond. The wedding date has not been set yet.

The feminine name Kayla is a combination of the name Kay and the popular suffix la. The name Kay is a short version of Katherine that has various meanings including “each of the two,” “torture,” “my consecration of you name,” or “pure”. On the other hand, the Yiddish version of the name Kayla is a variant transcription of Kaila, which is the Yiddish version of Kelila meaning “crown of laurel” in Hebrew.

The name Kayla became used more often in the 1980s. After the character from the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” - the beautiful Kayla Brady.