Meaning not yet researched.
Jakayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #671 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #671 in 2009; #3,799 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jakayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,799 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #671.
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Jakayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #671 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 451 (2008).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Jakayla, making it the 3,799th most common girls’ name of the year, up 55 places from #3,854 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 39 girls named Jakayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #671, reached in 2009. The most girls given the name in a single year was 451, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,377 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakayla in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 6 babies. In all, 6,840 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,482 babies named Jakayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,020 US girls were named Jakayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 213. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jakyla (938 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jakaylah, Jakala and Jakaila are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jakaylah (317), Jakala (258), Jakaila (230), Jakylah (215), Jacayla (108), Jaquayla (107), Jakela (54), Jakailah (41), Jakiyla (30), Jahkayla (30), Jakeyla (27), Jakila (25), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jakayla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2016 | 213 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 2015 | 172 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 2014 | 245 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2013 | 216 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2012 | 274 | #935 | — | — |
| 2011 | 298 | #880 | — | — |
| 2010 | 377 | #741 | — | — |
| 2009 | 434 | #671 | — | — |
| 2008 | 451 | #676 | — | — |
| 2007 | 415 | #703 | — | — |
| 2006 | 384 | #731 | — | — |
| 2005 | 387 | #705 | — | — |
| 2004 | 343 | #760 | — | — |
| 2003 | 321 | #772 | — | — |
| 2002 | 249 | #898 | — | — |
| 2001 | 267 | #854 | — | — |
| 2000 | 231 | #930 | — | — |
| 1999 | 206 | #998 | — | — |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,042 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,872 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).