Macayla

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477

Peak · girls
1998 · 134 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,189
since 1984

Macayla over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Macayla has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201996peak #1,322, 1998girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025
2024#13,4776
2023#15,1945
2022#11,2318
2021#12,2067
2020#7,21215
2019#7,02516
2018#9,15111
2017#6,80817
2016#5,79622
2015#4,29533
2014#3,77840
2013#3,21850
2012#3,04055
2011#3,09254
2010#2,49374
2009#2,20489
2008#2,25387
2007#2,43377
2006#2,30882
2005#1,98396
2004#1,871101
2003#1,769106
2002#1,564119
2001#1,384137
2000#1,344140
1999#1,461118
1998#1,322134
1997#1,475111
1996#1,539103
1995#1,90073
1994#1,95272
1993#2,60047
1992#5,05119
1991#3,36932
1990#6,13114
1989#8,7618
1988#10,3866
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First appearance
1984

The first year at least five girls were named Macayla! It came in at #10,422, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Macayla
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1984
  • Peaked 1998 at #1,322 (134 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,972
  • Highest: 1 in 12,972 girls born in 2000 were named Macayla (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,322 in 1998, was only 1 in 13,186 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 47.2% of all girls named Macayla (1,034) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s19#8,761 (1989)#9,856
1990s723#1,322 (1998)#2,680
2000s1,034#1,344 (2000)#1,911
2010s372#2,493 (2010)#4,870
2020s41#7,212 (2020)#11,864

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Macayla in 1996

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#1,539
103 births · 1 in 17,019 girls

Top girls' names in 1996

  1. #1Emily25,150
  2. #2Jessica24,201
  3. #3Ashley23,678
  4. #4Sarah21,048
  5. #5Samantha20,552
  6. #6Taylor19,155
  7. #7Hannah18,596
  8. #8Alexis16,592
  9. #9Rachel16,121
  10. #10Elizabeth16,003
  11. #1,539Macayla103
More about 1996

girls

1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 17,019 of them was named Macayla, which outranked 90.3% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Macayla
  1. #1,532Mira104
  2. #1,532Miya104
  3. #1,532Nelly104
  4. #1,539Macayla103
  5. #1,539Alix103
  6. #1,539Cheyanna103
  7. #1,539Courtnie103
  8. #1,551Clarisa102
  9. #1,551Colby102
  10. #1,551Ileana102

Tied with 11 names at #1,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1995
Risers
  1. 2,167Odalys#2,845#678
  2. 1,531Tamia#2,028#497
  3. 1,524Jaycie#2,486#962
  4. 1,486Odalis#2,394#908
  5. 1,430Zaria#2,155#725
Fallers
  1. 1,558Unknown#865#2,423
  2. 723Iridian#886#1,609
  3. 435Selene#964#1,399
  4. 394Salina#838#1,232
  5. 339Chelsi#697#1,036

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1996