Meaning not yet researched.
Makaylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,999 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,999 in 2005; #9,246 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makaylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,246 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,999.
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Makaylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,999 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 102 (2008).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Makaylee, making it the 9,246th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,709 places from #12,955 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 7 girls named Makaylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,999, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 102, in 2008. For comparison, it was #3,075 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makaylee in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 6 babies. In all, 1,487 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 770 babies named Makaylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 193 US girls were named Makaylee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Makaylie, Makaylia and Makylie 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Makaylie (283), Makaylia (216), Makylie (144), Makylee (127), Makaley (121), Makayli (114), Makailey (71), Makailee (70), Makalee (53), Makalie (37), Macaylee (30), Mackaylee (13), 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 Makaylee 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 | 11 | #9,246 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,955 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,503 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,896 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,315 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,106 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,327 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,403 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,548 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2005 | 95 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,143 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,251 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,762 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,798 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,710 | — | — |
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).