Macayla
Macayla was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 2,189 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Macayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Macayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Macayla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,558, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
140 babies in 2000, the peak
Macayla peaked in 2000, when 140 girls were given it, #1,350 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,558 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,661 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,831 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,980 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,427 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,211 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,553 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,981 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,902 | 12.4 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,361 | 18.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 40 | #3,820 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,243 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,067 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,116 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,506 | 41.6 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,220 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,260 | 46.0 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,450 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,319 | 43.1 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,988 | 52.0 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,877 | 55.0 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,779 | 58.0 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,567 | 66.2 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,392 | 76.1 |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,350 | 77.1 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,470 | 66.5 |
| 1998 | 134 | #1,321 | 75.8 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,483 | 63.8 |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,546 | 58.8 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,906 | 41.5 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,959 | 40.3 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,617 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,174 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,405 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,321 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,266 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,191 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,431 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Macayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Macayla 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 Macayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macayla, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,189 Americans ever recorded as Macayla. The median Macayla alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,935 people named Macayla (1,932 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 228 |
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 Macayla born?
The states with the most babies named Macayla are Texas, California and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 151 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 115 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 104 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 62 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 32 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Macayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Macayla?
Macayla is a less common spelling of Makayla: SSA has recorded 2,189 Macayla and 108,183 Makayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,103 babies since 1880, Macayla is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 642 babies recorded by SSA was a Macayla (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Macayla
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 Macayla and names like it
- Compare Macayla and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMacayla peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Macayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Macayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Macayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.