Makayla

Where Makayla comes from

The dictionaries list Makayla as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #6,006 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Makayla Gerken Schofield born
    British freestyle skier
  3. 2003
    Makayla Greenwood born
    American taekwondo practitioner
  4. 2008
    Peak, #37
    5,957 babies named Makayla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #123.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
Namesakes
  • Makayla Gerken Schofield · British freestyle skier, born 1999
  • Makayla Greenwood · American taekwondo practitioner, born 2003
  • Makayla Malaka · Nigerian singer and songwriter, born 2012
  • Makayla Rose · Indonesian actress, born 2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.