In 2025, 23 US girls were named Makyla, making it the 5,500th most common girls’ name of the year, up 814 places from #6,314 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 19 girls named Makyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,361, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #2,766 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makyla in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 2,418 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,268 babies named Makyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 297 US girls were named Makyla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Makayla (108,183 babies since 1880), Mayla (1,703 babies since 1880), Mikyla (1,099 babies since 1880) and Makaila (4,747 babies since 1880).