Jakayla
Jakayla was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,798 among girls’ names; 6,840 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,770 Americans named Jakayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakayla?
#3,798 among girls’ names, 2025
Jakayla fell from #1,377 in 2015 to #3,798 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 96.4 to 24.3 per million.
451 babies in 2008, the peak
Jakayla peaked in 2008, when 451 girls were given it, #676 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,798 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,854 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,367 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,371 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,318 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,932 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,808 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,731 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,403 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 213 | #1,178 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 172 | #1,377 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 245 | #1,060 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 216 | #1,122 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 274 | #935 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 298 | #880 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 377 | #741 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 434 | #671 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 451 | #676 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 415 | #703 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 384 | #731 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 387 | #705 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 343 | #760 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 321 | #772 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 249 | #898 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 267 | #854 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 231 | #929 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 206 | #996 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,314 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,355 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,284 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,472 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,732 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,918 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,875 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,036 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,866 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakayla, and how old are they?
6,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,840 Americans ever recorded as Jakayla. The median Jakayla alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,996 people named Jakayla (4,983 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,640 |
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).
Where are babies named Jakayla born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,003 | 1.7× |
Where Jakayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakayla is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1988 it was given 8.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jakayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,009 babies since 1880, Jakayla is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 65 babies (60%), again the most given.
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 Jakayla
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 Jakayla and names like it
- Compare Jakayla and JakylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakayla peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jakayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.