Makayla
#566 for girls in 2025, 530 births · Last seen for boys in 2011 at #8,767
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 5,957 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 16 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 108,030since 1971
Makayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #566 | 530 | — | |
| 2024 | #540 | 562 | — | |
| 2023 | #450 | 683 | — | |
| 2022 | #392 | 797 | — | |
| 2021 | #355 | 880 | — | |
| 2020 | #325 | 954 | — | |
| 2019 | #261 | 1,265 | — | |
| 2018 | #232 | 1,376 | — | |
| 2017 | #205 | 1,506 | — | |
| 2016 | #165 | 1,946 | — | |
| 2015 | #143 | 2,263 | — | |
| 2014 | #123 | 2,591 | — | |
| 2013 | #94 | 3,297 | — | |
| 2012 | #70 | 3,774 | — | |
| 2011 | #56 | 4,460 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #43 | 5,397 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #44 | 5,269 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #37 | 5,957 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #47 | 5,428 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #45 | 5,652 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #44 | 5,727 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #47 | 5,666 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #51 | 5,580 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #50 | 5,476 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #54 | 5,318 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #67 | 4,917 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #66 | 4,791 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #71 | 4,365 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #102 | 3,345 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #129 | 2,463 | — | |
| 1995 | #164 | 1,911 | — | |
| 1994 | #199 | 1,503 | — | |
| 1993 | #339 | 762 | — | |
| 1992 | #564 | 415 | — | |
| 1991 | #751 | 276 | — | |
| 1990 | #796 | 252 | — | |
| 1989 | #887 | 207 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,477 | 92 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,748 | 68 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,195 | 47 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,266 | 43 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Makayla! It came in at #6,006, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1976, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
See more about Makayla
- 26 spots since 2024 (#540 → #566)
- 241 spots since 2020 (#325 → #566)
- 423 spots since 2015 (#143 → #566)
- Biggest jump: 590 spots in 1989 (#1,477 → #887)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2024 (#450 → #540)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2008 at #37 (5,957 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 16 yrs · run 1998–2013
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1989–2025
- Highest: 1 in 317 girls born in 2008 were named Makayla (0.32%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,033 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 50.9% of all girls named Makayla (54,990) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 83 | #4,679 (1978) | #6,087 |
| 1980s | 593 | #887 (1989) | #2,539 |
| 1990s | 20,083 | #66 (1999) | #318 |
| 2000s | 54,990 | #37 (2008) | #49 |
| 2010s | 27,875 | #43 (2010) | #139 |
| 2020s | 4,406 | #325 (2020) | #438 |
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.
Makayla in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 328 of them was named Makayla, which outranked 99.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 277,359 of them was named Makayla, which outranked 32.3% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,643Ziah8
- #7,643Ziaire8
- #7,643Zvi8
- #8,456Makayla7
- #8,456Aaronjoseph7
- #8,456Abayomi7
- #8,456Abednego7
- #9,392Aalijah6
- #9,392Aarav6
- #9,392Aarik6
Tied with 935 names at #8,456; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.