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Jakayla

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Jakayla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 39 births. Its best rank was 671st, in 2009.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
390.00% of girls
Peak year
2008451 births
Best rank
#671in 2009
Since 1988
6,799people given the name
Babies named Jakayla, by year of birthgirls
012525037550018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

6,799 girls have been named Jakayla in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 451 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 51%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Jakayla
1980s14
1990s742
2000s3,482
2010s2,190
2020s371

In 2008, its biggest year

Jakayla was the 676th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.

Names that rose and fell with Jakayla

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.