Mackayla
Mackayla was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,576 among girls’ names; 1,306 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Mackayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mackayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mackayla?
#10,576 among girls’ names, 2025
Mackayla fell from #4,267 in 2015 to #10,576 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 5.6 per million.
71 babies in 1998, the peak
Mackayla peaked in 1998, when 71 girls were given it, #2,073 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,576 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,763 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,052 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,892 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,567 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,230 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,212 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,924 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,545 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,725 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,267 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,168 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,436 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,404 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,820 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,686 | 37.7 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,915 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,046 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,233 | 27.6 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,656 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,743 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,909 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,427 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,959 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,722 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,222 | 39.1 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,766 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,073 | 40.2 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,330 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,828 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,437 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,190 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,831 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,187 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mackayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mackayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mackayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mackayla, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,306 Americans ever recorded as Mackayla. The median Mackayla alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,153 people named Mackayla (1,153 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 107 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 896 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 289 |
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).
How common is the spelling Mackayla?
Mackayla is a less common spelling of Makayla: SSA has recorded 1,306 Mackayla and 108,183 Makayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 139,220 babies since 1880, Mackayla is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 651 babies (1.4%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Mackayla
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 Mackayla and names like it
- Compare Mackayla and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMackayla peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mackayla since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Mackayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mackayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.