In 2025, 13 US girls were named Jakyla, making it the 8,063rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,127 places from #9,190 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 11 girls named Jakyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,866, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 61, in 2009. For comparison, it was #5,542 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakyla in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 938 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 451 babies named Jakyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 207 US girls were named Jakyla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jakayla (6,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jakilah are summarised on this page.