Akayla
Akayla was given to 7 girls in 2025, #11,977 among girls’ names; 1,375 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Akayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Akayla?
#11,977 among girls’ names, 2025
Akayla fell from #4,985 in 2015 to #11,977 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 4.4 per million.
105 babies in 2007, the peak
Akayla peaked in 2007, when 105 girls were given it, #1,957 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,977 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,578 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,218 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,558 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,640 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,565 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,612 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,458 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,825 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,667 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #4,985 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,353 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,918 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,419 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,174 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,937 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,396 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,397 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,957 | 54.6 |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,933 | 54.7 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,224 | 44.4 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,444 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,520 | 35.0 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,886 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,434 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,017 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,779 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,066 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,006 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,356 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,346 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,443 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,268 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,068 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,278 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,868 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Akayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akayla, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,375 Americans ever recorded as Akayla. The median Akayla alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,057 people named Akayla (1,054 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 117 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,023 babies since 1880, Akayla is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 36 babies (19%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Akayla
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Akayla and names like it
- Compare Akayla and AkilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAkayla peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Akayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Akayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.