Makayla
Makayla is ranked 542nd among girls in 2024 (556 births). Its best rank was 37th, in 2008.
- Rank in 2024
- #542down 89 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5560.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 20085,956 births
- Best rank
- #37in 2008
- Since 1971
- 107,474people given the name
The story in the numbers
107,474 girls have been named Makayla in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 5,956 births — 0.32% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 123 → 542).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 51%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Makayla was the 37th 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 Makayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nakaylapeak 2004
- Haileighpeak 2002
- Abigalepeak 2003
- Abbigailpeak 2009
- Abbigalepeak 2007
- Arrianapeak 2007
- Markaylapeak 2008
- Breasiapeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
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.