Jakyla
Jakyla was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,061 among girls’ names; 938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakyla?
#8,061 among girls’ names, 2025
Jakyla fell from #5,540 in 2015 to #8,061 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 8.1 per million.
61 babies in 2006, the peak
Jakyla peaked in 2006, when 61 girls were given it, #2,866 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,061 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,185 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,632 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,378 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,830 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,714 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,357 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,113 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,979 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,574 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,540 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,390 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,106 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,017 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,070 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,022 | 31.5 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,866 | 33.2 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,285 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,072 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,866 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,025 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,864 | 30.5 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,136 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,541 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,072 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,790 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,418 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,851 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,691 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,294 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakyla, and how old are they?
An estimated 930 Americans named Jakyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 616 people named Jakyla (611 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
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 Jakyla born?
The states with the most babies named Jakyla are Mississippi, Florida and Georgia, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 127 | not ranked | 13.2× |
| Florida | 75 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 49 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 46 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 16 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jakyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakyla is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1995 it was given 13.2 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 Jakyla 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, Jakyla is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 65 babies (20%), again the second 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 Jakyla
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 Jakyla and names like it
- Compare Jakyla and JakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakyla peaked in 2006.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jakyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.