Meaning not yet researched.
Makayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 530 in 2025. Its best rank was #37 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #37 in 2008; #568 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#568 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #37.
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Makayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 530 girls in 2025. Peak: #37 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 5,957 (2008).
In 2025, 530 US girls were named Makayla, making it the 568th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #542 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 562 girls named Makayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #37, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,957. For comparison, it was #143 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makayla in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 8 babies. In all, 108,183 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 55,099 babies named Makayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,499 US girls were named Makayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,946. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,033 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makayla ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #321 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Michaela (53,702 babies since 1880), Micaela (14,983 babies since 1880), Makyla (2,418 babies since 1880) and Michela (2,217 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Makalah, Makylah and Makailah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kayla.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Makalah (656), Makylah (551), Makailah (547), Makeyla (386), Macaela (325), Makila (304), Makela (292), Makeila (250), Mahkayla (186), Macala (155), Macaila (151), Maykayla (132), 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 17 | #321 | #161 |
| Georgia | 31 | #359 | #87 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #384 | #107 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #396 | #116 |
| Nevada | 7 | #407 | #150 |
| Michigan | 18 | #475 | #120 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #492 | #87 |
| Ohio | 22 | #498 | #159 |
| California | 66 | #507 | #166 |
| Alabama | 10 | #513 | #103 |
| Texas | 62 | #517 | #138 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #523 | #191 |
| Virginia | 15 | #530 | #128 |
| Illinois | 19 | #536 | #124 |
| Florida | 34 | #538 | #101 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #547 | #338 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #572 | #103 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #636 | #317 |
| Iowa | 5 | #649 | #245 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #655 | #53 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #686 | #148 |
| Indiana | 9 | #699 | #181 |
| Arizona | 9 | #730 | #145 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #742 | #101 |
| Colorado | 7 | #756 | #250 |
| New York | 21 | #774 | #152 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #820 | #166 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #876 | #193 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,001 | #187 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 530 | #568 | — | — |
| 2024 | 562 | #542 | — | — |
| 2023 | 683 | #452 | — | — |
| 2022 | 797 | #392 | — | — |
| 2021 | 880 | #355 | — | — |
| 2020 | 954 | #325 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,265 | #261 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,376 | #232 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,506 | #205 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,946 | #165 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,263 | #143 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,591 | #123 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,297 | #94 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,774 | #70 | — | — |
| 2011 | 4,460 | #56 | 8 | #9,299 |
| 2010 | 5,397 | #43 | 10 | #7,938 |
| 2009 | 5,269 | #44 | 7 | #10,585 |
| 2008 | 5,957 | #37 | 6 | #12,017 |
| 2007 | 5,428 | #47 | 6 | #11,818 |
| 2006 | 5,652 | #45 | 7 | #10,241 |
| 2005 | 5,727 | #44 | 14 | #5,766 |
| 2004 | 5,666 | #47 | 28 | #3,419 |
| 2003 | 5,580 | #51 | 10 | #7,052 |
| 2002 | 5,476 | #50 | 7 | #9,034 |
| 2001 | 5,318 | #54 | 15 | #5,052 |
| 2000 | 4,917 | #67 | 9 | #7,193 |
| 1999 | 4,791 | #66 | 7 | #8,389 |
| 1998 | 4,365 | #71 | 12 | #5,349 |
| 1997 | 3,345 | #102 | 7 | #7,802 |
| 1996 | 2,463 | #129 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,911 | #164 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,503 | #199 | — | — |
| 1993 | 762 | #340 | — | — |
| 1992 | 415 | #564 | — | — |
| 1991 | 276 | #751 | — | — |
| 1990 | 252 | #797 | — | — |
| 1989 | 207 | #890 | — | — |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,285 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,828 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,726 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,372 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,636 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,602 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,011 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,971 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,362 | — | — |
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).