Makaila
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 284 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,747since 1979
Makaila over time
Rank among girls' names. Makaila has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 |
| 2017 | #3,053 | 53 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 87 |
| 2014 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2013 | #2,020 | 96 |
| 2012 | #1,639 | 131 |
| 2011 | #1,210 | 198 |
| 2010 | #1,063 | 233 |
| 2009 | #1,091 | 233 |
| 2008 | #977 | 274 |
| 2007 | #893 | 310 |
| 2006 | #935 | 280 |
| 2005 | #835 | 304 |
| 2004 | #991 | 239 |
| 2003 | #930 | 253 |
| 2002 | #853 | 270 |
| 2001 | #819 | 284 |
| 2000 | #1,108 | 184 |
| 1999 | #1,071 | 187 |
| 1998 | #1,074 | 181 |
| 1997 | #1,212 | 148 |
| 1996 | #1,232 | 142 |
| 1995 | #1,502 | 105 |
| 1994 | #1,744 | 84 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
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| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Makaila! It came in at #8,061, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1984, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Makaila is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#596 · 1 in 3,102
- Louisiana#605 · 1 in 2,812
- Maryland#612 · 1 in 3,042
- Virginia#719 · 1 in 3,961
- Arizona#721 · 1 in 3,509
Best ever in a state: #351 in Mississippi, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #596 | 12 | 1 in 3,102 |
| Louisiana | #605 | 7 | 1 in 2,812 |
| Maryland | #612 | 8 | 1 in 3,042 |
| Virginia | #719 | 9 | 1 in 3,961 |
| Arizona | #721 | 9 | 1 in 3,509 |
| Pennsylvania | #743 | 12 | 1 in 4,410 |
| North Carolina | #763 | 11 | 1 in 4,086 |
| Florida | #817 | 17 | 1 in 4,681 |
| Tennessee | #872 | 6 | 1 in 4,889 |
| Colorado | #887 | 5 | 1 in 4,571 |
| Indiana | #1,043 | 5 | 1 in 6,063 |
| Washington | #1,080 | 5 | 1 in 6,065 |
| New York | #1,119 | 13 | 1 in 7,157 |
| Georgia | #1,174 | 7 | 1 in 6,852 |
| Illinois | #1,177 | 8 | 1 in 7,602 |
| Texas | #1,186 | 21 | 1 in 7,601 |
| Ohio | #1,402 | 5 | 1 in 10,353 |
| California | #1,405 | 20 | 1 in 10,550 |
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See more about Makaila
- 1,720 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #8,362)
- 2,512 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #8,362)
- 6,193 spots since 2015 (#2,169 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 289 spots in 2001 (#1,108 → #819)
- Biggest drop: 114 spots in 2009 (#977 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2001 at #819 (284 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2001–2008
- Highest: 1 in 6,078 girls born in 2005 were named Makaila (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #819 in 2001, was only 1 in 6,340 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 55.4% of all girls named Makaila (2,631) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,061 |
| 1980s | 37 | #6,160 (1989) | #7,580 |
| 1990s | 959 | #1,071 (1999) | #2,362 |
| 2000s | 2,631 | #819 (2001) | #943 |
| 2010s | 1,000 | #1,063 (2010) | #2,538 |
| 2020s | 113 | #4,999 (2023) | #6,496 |
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.
Makaila in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 7,629 of them was named Makaila, which outranked 94.6% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,059Karis234
- #1,059Leigha234
- #1,059Saanvi234
- #1,063Makaila233
- #1,063Ashanti233
- #1,063Bentley233
- #1,063Iyana233
- #1,070Gracyn232
- #1,070Jersey232
- #1,070Leticia232
Tied with 6 names at #1,063; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.