Meaning not yet researched.
Makaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,257 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,257 in 1998; #8,162 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,162 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,257.
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Makaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,257 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 145 (1998).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Makaela, making it the 8,162nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,329 places from #6,833 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 17 girls named Makaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,257, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #3,163 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makaela in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 6 babies. In all, 2,764 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,216 babies named Makaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 238 US girls were named Makaela; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. 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 Makayla (108,183 babies since 1880), Makaila (4,747 babies since 1880), Makala (3,403 babies since 1880) and Makaylah (3,169 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maquela 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: Maquela (18).
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 Makaela 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 | 13 | #8,162 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,833 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,131 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,378 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,143 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 2000 | 138 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1999 | 129 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1998 | 145 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1997 | 136 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,899 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,309 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,438 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,386 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,927 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,396 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,031 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,734 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,271 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,813 | — | — |
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).