Meaning not yet researched.
Makaylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,126 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,126 in 2009; #7,735 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makaylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,735 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,126.
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Makaylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,126 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 225 (2009).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Makaylah, making it the 7,735th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,009 places from #5,726 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 22 girls named Makaylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,126, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 225. For comparison, it was #2,008 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makaylah in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 3,169 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,554 babies named Makaylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 398 US girls were named Makaylah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 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 Makaela (2,764 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Makaylah 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 | 14 | #7,735 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,726 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,826 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,891 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,367 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 2015 | 99 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 2010 | 188 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2009 | 225 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 2007 | 203 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2005 | 201 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,778 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,318 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,607 | — | — |
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).