In 2025, 7 US girls were named Akayla, making it the 11,981st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,398 places from #9,583 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 girls named Akayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,933, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 105, in 2007. For comparison, it was #4,987 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akayla in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 12 babies. In all, 1,375 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 745 babies named Akayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 139 US girls were named Akayla; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.