Mayla

#1,758 for girls in 2025, 115 births

Peak · girls
2024 · 116 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,703
since 1956

Mayla over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201956girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#1,758115
2024#1,743116
2023#1,98499
2022#2,34679
2021#1,98098
2020#1,96596
2019#2,05692
2018#2,02696
2017#2,25783
2016#2,16889
2015#2,31880
2014#2,58268
2013#3,07653
2012#3,04055
2011#4,24434
2010#3,12353
2009#5,09728
2008#3,52946
2007#3,65344
2006#4,46332
2005#5,60022
2004#5,55522
2003#6,29918
2002#7,04515
2001#5,82219
2000#5,93718
1999#5,66118
1998#8,01611
1997#7,74211
1996#13,5185
1995#11,7836
1994#10,5697
1993#10,5887
1992#10,4797
1991#13,1475
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1984#10,4225
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First appearance
1956

The first year at least five girls were named Mayla! It came in at #4,837, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Mayla
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 15 spots since 2024 (#1,743#1,758)
  • 207 spots since 2020 (#1,965#1,758)
  • 560 spots since 2015 (#2,318#1,758)
Rise & fade · girls
68 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1956
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,743 (116 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 13,967
  • Highest: 1 in 13,967 girls born in 2024 were named Mayla (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,976 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 41.3% of all girls named Mayla (703) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s17#4,837 (1956)#5,728
1960s12#5,891 (1963)#6,069
1970s5#9,652 (1977)#9,652
1980s22#8,178 (1980)#9,949
1990s77#5,661 (1999)#10,167
2000s264#3,529 (2008)#5,300
2010s703#2,026 (2018)#2,689
2020s603#1,743 (2024)#1,963

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.

Mayla in 1956

girls
#4,837
7 births · 1 in 286,815 girls

Top girls' names in 1956

  1. #1Mary61,741
  2. #2Debra48,324
  3. #3Linda48,084
  4. #4Deborah47,834
  5. #5Susan46,558
  6. #6Patricia43,329
  7. #7Karen40,052
  8. #8Cynthia32,339
  9. #9Barbara32,302
  10. #10Donna29,852
  11. #4,837Mayla7
More about 1956

girls

2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 286,815 of them was named Mayla, which outranked 29.8% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mayla
  1. #4,467Young8
  2. #4,467Yvonda8
  3. #4,467Zondra8
  4. #4,837Mayla7
  5. #4,837Adrene7
  6. #4,837Adrien7
  7. #4,837Agapita7
  8. #5,325Adda6
  9. #5,325Al6
  10. #5,325Alacia6

Tied with 487 names at #4,837; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1955
Risers
  1. 993Sheena#1,839#846
  2. 770Glendora#1,733#963
  3. 684Leesa#1,209#525
  4. 543Marisa#1,074#531
  5. 537Dani#1,383#846
Fallers
  1. 513Sheilah#663#1,176
  2. 481Jeryl#768#1,249
  3. 344Jacalyn#496#840
  4. 325Roni#536#861
  5. 314Florine#984#1,298

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

See the top 100 for 1956