Lakayla
Lakayla was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,340 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Lakayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakayla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,865, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
78 babies in 2003, the peak
Lakayla peaked in 2003, when 78 girls were given it, #2,214 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,865 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,788 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,699 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,868 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,589 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,253 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,449 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,926 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,842 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,078 | 15.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 31 | #4,660 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,309 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,858 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,542 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,620 | 37.5 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,908 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,527 | 38.4 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,327 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,661 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,214 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,803 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,549 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,293 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,237 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,045 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,065 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,329 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,051 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,313 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,631 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,457 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,094 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,407 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,351 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,875 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,183 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,976 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,098 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,140 | 6.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,258 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakayla, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,340 Americans ever recorded as Lakayla. The median Lakayla alive today is 22 years old; half are between 18 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,010 people named Lakayla (1,004 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,303 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 915 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 158 |
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,528 babies since 1880, Lakayla is the most given (88% of them).
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 Lakayla
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 Lakayla and names like it
- Compare Lakayla and LakylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLakayla peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Lakayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lakayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.