Dakayla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Dakayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 495 babies named Dakayla between 1995 and 2022, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dakayla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 36 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dakayla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 257 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dakayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Dakayla in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dakayla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 495 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.