Meaning not yet researched.
Markayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,517 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,517 in 2002; #7,746 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Markayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,746 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,517.
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Markayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,517 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 134 (2008).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Markayla, making it the 7,746th most common girls’ name of the year, down 617 places from #7,129 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 16 girls named Markayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,517, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 134, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,987 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Markayla in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 6 babies. In all, 2,245 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,174 babies named Markayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 260 US girls were named Markayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Markella, Marcayla and Markela 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: Markella (310), Marcayla (143), Markela (136), Markala (120), Markyla (48), Markaila (39), Markeyla (38), Markaylah (35), Markila (12).
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 Markayla 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 | #7,746 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,129 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,620 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,089 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,993 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,406 | — | — |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,781 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,339 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,763 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,444 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,271 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,228 | — | — |
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).